Re: [almer@gnome.org: Zone]

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:

> zone-when-idle 180 does indeed give a delay of around 18 seconds.
> But zone-when-idle 20 gives a delay of 20 seconds, so it is not as
> simple as a multiple of 10 out. I get the same results on GNU/Linux,
> so it is probably a bug in zone rather than a low level timer bug
> specific to Windows.

In fact, what I saw was the somewhat surprising behaviour that after
running (zone-when-idle 20), (zone-when-idle 180) does not change the
idle period to 180 seconds, but leaves it as 20 seconds.  On both
platforms, calling zone-leave-me-alone before (zone-when-idle 180)
results in the expected behaviour.

> "Almer S. Tigelaar" <almer@gnome.org> writes:

> > I noticed an error in the "zone" package, it seems that the argument to
> > "zone-when-idle" is not in seconds but in 1/10ths of a second.
> > Reproduction:
> > try "M-x zone-when-idle 180"
> > Sit back and don't touch anything, notice that it zones out after 18
> > seconds, not 180 as the documentation suggests.
> > Remarks:
> > The "run-with-idle-timer" function does not exhibit this malfunction which
> > suggests that the problem lies within the zone package itself.