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." _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
