Considering not taking background time into account?

[onlyice]

This plugin is really convenient and helpful. But there's a situation that can be handled better.

I open PyCharm to work on my project. Then I switch to Google Chrome to view some documents. But the time I'm not editing the code file in PyCharm is collected and reported to the Activity Watch server. This is mostly not as expected.

[OlivierMary]

Hi,

On Jetbrains IDEs I can only get IDEs events, and there is no event like "Left IDE", "Back to IDE".

For that it's on activity watch to do something.... You can get time pass on each app, and afk times.

Or if no interaction since 60sec I dont record ? Not really good You can pass 5min to watch a code part no, how to set a good limit... ?

[onlyice]

Or if no interaction since 60sec I dont record ? Not really good You can pass 5min to watch a code part no, how to set a good limit... ?

I think it's a good idea. Maybe you can provide an option for user to specify the heartbeat suspending timeout?

[OlivierMary]

Why not, by default no timeout and if need a configurable timeout.

[johan-bjareholt]

Or if no interaction since 60sec I dont record ? Not really good You can pass 5min to watch a code part no, how to set a good limit... ?

This is how many other editor watchers do it. At least that's how I did it in aw-watcher-vim but if I remember correctly I've seen other editor watchers doing it this way too.

[tmotyl]

According to https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-server-rust/issues/174#issuecomment-703445799 this module should use heartbeat API.

[OlivierMary]

Just submit v2.0.0 to JB review when publish can you tell me if changes works for you?

[OlivierMary]

@tmotyl I see some issues on windows and rust server see #113 , have to wait validation of 2.0.4.

[tmotyl]

Thanks @OlivierMary for taking care. Highly appreciated! i will test it next days