[maemo-developers] Fwd: backgrounding/lock QA fail

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Aapo Rantalainen <
aapo.rantalainen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I see we have a few apps (especially ports and stuff using SDL) that do
> not
> > know how to suspend themselves and therefore it fails the QA. Now, the
> problem
> > is that often it is non-trivial to fix/support this, and it's not that
> easy to
> > point people to the right resources (due to the number of technologies
> > involved). Often the people involved are not the authors, just
> maintainers, so
> > their understanding of the inner workings/event loops of the apps is
> rather
> > limited, making things even more difficult.
>
> Does it mean original writer is using SDL wrongly?
>
> Is this suspend-issue something that (all) upstream should be informed
> and should they fix it?
> (Is this relating overall power usage and 'green-computing'?)
>

Sadly I don’t know SDL at all, but it is clear that this has nothing to do
with upstream -
on the desktop, there is no ’rule’ that apps should pause or stop if they
lose focus or
another app claims focus (like often in our case the phone app or IM), it is
even
customary to use a button press to pause. On top of that, the mechanism for
detecting this (going to background, screen turning off, lock button
pressed) would be Maemo specific so would likely never go upstream anyway.

Best regards,
Attila
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