Plasma 5 - Where have all the screensavers gone

Robin Laing MeSat at TelusPlanet.net
Wed Apr 15 03:19:23 UTC 2015


On 2015-04-14 14:28, 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
>

Privacy.

I like a screensaver to lock and hide my screen.  Where I work, screen 
locks are mandated.  If I don't have one, I will be forced to use 
Windows.  It needs to be automatic and hide the information on the screen.

I read the Wikipedia article and it points to Security as a reason for 
screensavers.

At home it keeps little kids from opening hundereds of tabs or windows 
as one of my kids did when they were younger.  I think the count was 
about 272 windows in Firefox.

So they do serve a purpose.  If not screensavers in F22/KDE, I guess I 
won't be going to F22 until it is sorted out.

Robin



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