Hi,

Thanks for the good work! After our company stopped the contract
with WorkPace, I was happy to found out that there is a fine
working alternative!

I've got a minor feature request: the current GUI allows me to
disable both the Postpone and the Skip button simultaneously. 
I would like the following behaviour (for the rest breaks):
 * a postpone button (which is disabled when you've postponed
   too often, e.g. after maximum number of prompts)
 * no skip button
Would it be possible to disable the skip button separately?
And is the postpone behaviour of Workrave also determined
by the number of prompts: is the number of prompts also
the limit of the number of postpones?

Best regards,

Theo van Walsum

I think it would be very helpful to me to allow controlling separately whether there is a skip button and whether there is a postpone button. If this was possible, I would get rid of the skip button but keep the postpone button.

I also think it would help to have a way to make postponement get progressively more difficult.  There are a lot of possibilities for doing so.  Perhaps each additional postponement could last a smaller time.  Or the postpone button might need to be pressed more than once. These options could be combined.

I think this is a duplicate of bug 691.

I disagree, bug 691 was about what should happen when the "show <<postpone>> and <<skip>> button" checkbox is enabled. Here, we'd like to control the two buttons separately, i.e. 
"show <<postpone>> button"
"show <<skip>> button"

The idea is we want to be able to postpone (a limited number of times) but not to skip a break.

Agree, this would make lots of sense. Separate the skip and postpone switch into two separate switches for each break type.

+1, really want it.

I agree with the others. I used this software in the past, years ago, and I found I continually skipped. I should be able to set it up exactly as the first comment says: postpone a few times, then you're forced to take the break. Really, this software is a substitute for will-power. Left to my own devices, I'll code all day: I need a nanny to stop me from indulging in my bad practices!

An alternative, which I'd welcome but don't see (and I think this might be easier to implement) would be for you to be able to block both Skip and Postpone, but have a configured count-down (e.g. 5 minutes.) The reason I skip/postpone usually is that I'm in the middle of a thought or activity, juggling a bunch of stuff in my head, and I'm scared to get interrupted lest I lose track of something. If I had a few minutes warning before the break, I'd be forced to jot down the various things.

Another point I'd like to make: I don't use this software because of an RSI injury: there's increasing evidence that sitting all day without taking regular breaks is very bad for the health. But what's also obvious is that taking a break inevitably helps if you're trying to solve a problem. I can work for hours trying to crack a nut. But if I take a shower, the answer almost invariably comes to me. So enforced breaks, with no possibility of parole, is good for you in many ways, not just because of an RSI injury.

I'm still testing the software to see if I can get it to do what I want. But it's looking like I'll have to try something else.

Thanks, Keith Adams

For the googlers who end up on this issue: This feature request has now been implemented and is available in the latest shapshot release (http://snapshots.workrave.org/20121205/). Expect it to be included in any stable Workrave vesion later than 1.9.4.