[Request] Away Message when Screensaver is Active

[anonymous]

When I'm at the office I have to step away from my desk quite a lot. When I do, I use exposé to activate my password-protected screen saver and off I go. It never fails that when I arrive back an employee has complained that I did not set an away message when I walked away.

No, it's not that hard to set an away message when I step away. But it would make life a little nicer if Adium assumed idle status when the screensaver became active. It'd be neat if we could have a specific away message for when the screensaver was active, but that's a long shot. If I can go idle automatically when my screen saver activates I'll be a real happy guy!

[ofri.wolfus@…]

I'm not sure this is the *right* way to do this, but it can be done by asking ScreenSaverController whether the screen saver is running or not, while we check if the user is idle. The only problem is that ScreenSaverController is a private class of the ScreenSaver framework. Do a class-dump and get the header file. Thoughts?

[ofri.wolfus@…]

Here is the header of ScreenSaverController

[lily0917@…]

Im Away from the computer right now

[ofri.wolfus@…]

Fixed based on notifications sent to NSDistributedNotificationCenter

[cheesy]

I've been hoping for this for some time, however I'd really like a 'dedicated message' - if my screensaver is on I'm definitely not looking at my screen. If I'm idle, I might just be watching TV.

[evands]

Haha, Ofri accidentally commited his patch in [12974] while adding an address book search window. The patch immediately marks us as idle when the screen saver becomes active.