You know the only problem with that would be places like where I work where if your computer is on, it is required to have a screen saver, and that screen saver IS required to make it obvious that the computer is on. Personally I don't want to have to go out and find screen savers when there are so many that are currently in the Fedora Core that handle this requirement. Now I do also agree that a lot of the clutter could be removed, but there does need to be some non-blank screen savers left in.
What is the logic behind this policy? Is this to make sure that someone doesn't leave a computer unsecured? If so, does the computer need to show that the screen is locked or the person is logged out? Are KVM forbidden?
-Will
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-----Original Message----- From: fedora-desktop-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-desktop-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Garrity Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:53 To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop Subject: Re: Screensavers in FC3
Ed Mack wrote:
Simple, clean, avoids flamewars.
That's a nice way to handle it, but it's only really aimed
at the geek
population. 'Bootstrapping GCC' isn't something many normal
users do.
I like the idea of including a few 'pretty' screensavers
the user can
choose to run from the control panel if they feel the urge
to customise
- otherwise people can become disalusioned, and people will happily
judge their first Linux experience by the quality of given
screensavers.
A lot of the Xscreensavers need to be taken to the pasture and shot, they are /so/ 1983
I agree that a few simple/quality screensavers would be fine to include by default, but if the debate over which should stay will at all delay the removal of all the cruft, I'd say we go to blank-only.
I think blank-only is a better default for now, and we can work on getting a couple (probably just one good simple Fedora logo screensaver) back in later on.
Steven Garrity
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