I disagree about handling voice+video different from voice-only calls. I'm in both cases using the computer and I think this is similar enough to the case of watching a movie (which inhibits the screensaver from starting). Note that I might not be jotting down stuff all the time and I have a very short lock timeout (1 minute) which combined with a long password means unlocking the screen actually is a significant time cost in the middle of a conversation. You could obviously say that those are silly settings, but to me as a user, I'm using the computer when sitting in front of it and talking.
About the wandering around the room for ten minutes; I have a cord about 1.5m long so it'd be a very small walk in my case. Screen burn is mostly a problem for CRTs and then you are talking about much, much, much more time than what you'd get from sitting in a phone call. And if you're worried about that, you can always just switch on the screensaver yourself. Same goes for laptop power consumption. (Actually, I think dimming the screen would be fine, but not turning it off or locking it.) -- should detect ekiga (voip) activity as activity and not lock screen https://launchpad.net/bugs/30659 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
