Plasma 5 - Where have all the screensavers gone

[Luigi Toscano]

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