[SDL] SDL tampers with display power settings on the sly

[Erik]

Erik skrev:
> Sam Lantinga skrev:
>> SDL turns off screensaver by default because 99% of the applications
>> which use SDL are games or media players,
> I get the point about media players, but games?!?
That might be interpreted as if I think that the current SDL behaviour 
is fine for all media players, but it is certainly not. The only kinds 
of applications that the current SDL behaviour sort of works for is the 
very simple kind of media players that just start, play a movie and then 
terminate, called from the command line like this:
% mediaplayer filename


(How many % of SDL applications are like that?) For all other 
applications, the current SDL behaviour breaks things. Suppose that 
there is a media player that not always plays a movie. Maybe it shows 
some file selection dialog when started without a filename on the 
command line. It has no excuse to mess around with display settings 
until a file has been selected and it actually starts playing something. 
Likewise, if the movie stops playing, the screensaver should be enabled, 
even if the application does not terminate.