Created attachment 2040 
Patch to replace g_timeout_add to g_timeout_add_seconds

Hello,

g_timeout_add_seconds has been added in glib 2.14. The only difference when calling it instead of g_timeout_add, from the developer's point of view, is that the '*1000' in the interval goes away.

From the user's point of view, though, the difference is more important: g_timeout_add_seconds, at the expense of a little bit of preciseness, rounds and groups wake-ups, which leads to less power consumption and better battery life on laptops. You can read more about this on http://www.lesswatts.org/documentation/silicon-power-mgmnt/ for example.

The attached patch uses g_timeout_add_seconds when it's available (and defines a wrapper when it's not, to avoid multiple #if-#else-#endif blocks in the code), in the places where the delay is greater or equal to one second.

Hope this helps!