https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335729
Pedro V <voidpointertonull+bugskde...@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Pedro V <voidpointertonull+bugskde...@gmail.com> ---
Confirming the original "issue", some mentioned related issues may not exist
anymore though.
Current status with Plasma 5.27.8 and Firefox which seems to be well behaving
when it comes to inhibiting power management:
- Video in the foreground inhibits power management
- Switching to another tab while the video is still playing no longer inhibits
power management, so the screen turns off
- There's no inhibitor for sleeping, so the host goes to sleep while audio is
playing
It's not really an issue as I find it likely that the feature just simply
doesn't exist yet in KDE, but given the report of Gnome supporting it it surely
looks like it might be desirable.
Keep in mind though that it's not a universally desired feature though, it's
definitely something that should be possible to toggle if ever implemented.
A good reason I can give for that is the emergence of malicious websites using
whatever they can for fingerprinting, including audio. For example even right
now my browser is shown to be playing audio without hearing anything, and this
time I tracked it down to Aliexpress tabs which notoriously still do this,
although apparently not all the time. Earlier I tracked it down to Discord
doing it for a couple months before they likely tamed the malware not to keep
audio in use. It's already bad enough to often have no other option but to use
such hostile sites, so I would hate it if they would be able to mess with me
even more.
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