Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 19:42:38 UTC 2003


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:05:56PM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:48:30PM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> >
> >>I've been suffering from RSI quite badly some years ago, a.o. a program 
> >>like workrave helped me controlling the problem. I think every desktop 
> >>should include one even if it only is to prevent RSI.
> >
> >
> >Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Typing Break
> >
> >michaelkjohnson
> I know this option but it's far to simple. AFAIK it doesn't adapt if you 
> take a break your self. WorkRave really measures your activity and 
> forces you to have small micro breaks if your mousing or typing. If you 
> are reading it doesn't stop you.

So this, in opinion, would be a place to take up the discussion of
enhancing GNOME's included support, rather than having lots of
different tools that try, with varying amounts of success, to do
the same job.

michaelkjohnson

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