idle detection

[Sean Egan]

On 7/25/07, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
> Polling every second is a bit extreme.  What's wrong with checking every minute,
> using whatever minute-precision stuff Richard introduced that is escaping me at
> the moment?

When you boil down to it, it's not much more extreme than once every 5
seconds, the previous timeout.

My biggest concern is that when you're idle, that's when you'd prefer
to have Pidgin sleep most to keep the CPU in low-power mode as long as
possible.

-s.