Plasma 5 - Where have all the screensavers gone
Luigi Toscano
luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Tue Apr 14 20:22:20 UTC 2015
Glenn Holmer ha scritto:
> On 04/14/2015 09:12 AM, Luigi Toscano wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 of April 2015 17:02:56 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>>> In Plasma 5... Where haveall the screensavers gone????
>>
>> They would be screen lockers, and probably waiting for people to rewrite them
>> using the new infrastructure. See here (all comments) for some background:
>> https://plus.google.com/+SasaRakezic/posts/bcyNtUwHZBq
>> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=124413
>
> That's just lame. Because screensavers don't fulfill a useful function,
> they should be consigned to an ignominious death? Let's do the same with
> all music, art, and literature! Nothing frivolous shall remain! We must
> all be serious, very serious!
>
Please re-read. There are real security concern. On the other way, it should
be possible to create alternative screen lockers using QML; it's just that no
one worked on this yet, which is bad but I can understand the amount of
workload already handled by the developers.
Ciao
--
Luigi
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