Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) on Nostr: That doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and I'm not sure the widget toolkits people ...

That doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and I'm not sure the widget toolkits people are going to think it makes sense either.

The background apps API is not a direct "do this specific graphical widget" kind of thing, it's an "operating system behavior" API.
It is the same to me than inhibiting screenlock or suspend (it does not involve a GUI toolkit) or emitting desktop notifications (you don't ask a widgets GUI toolkit to do it for you, you just do it)—the behavior is up to the DE.