Plasma 5 - Where have all the screensavers gone

[Glenn Holmer]

On 04/14/2015 03:28 PM, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> Dne 14.4.2015 v 21:12 Glenn Holmer napsal(a):
>> 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!
> 
> There's a good reason why they're gone mainly because... well they
> aren't really saving anything. Back in the days when everybody had TFT
> monitors, screensavers would actually prevent the physical damage from
> literally burning a still image into the monitor's matrix. These days
> with the LCD displays, they are doing exactly the opposite - keep the PC
> awake and in turn preventing it from entering a "sleep" state,
> effectively wasting your power and battery.
> 
> I suggest to read the fine article at wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screensaver

I get all that (and I remember the days of CRT burn), but I have news
for you: there's more to life than electricity. Some of those
screensavers are just gorgeous; it's an art form, like demos. I don't
care if it's called something else instead; I don't care what goes on in
the background to make it happen, but I want to be able to walk into my
lab and have those beautiful images take my breath away.

-- 
Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
"After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."