In fact one of the basic reasons to move some screensavers out has been that the OpenGL ones (at least) can keep CPU usage on 100% on many machines, which contributes to the bill to pay and for many laptops it increases the temperature considerably. behdad On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Powell, James F CONT wrote: > I think I through a monkey wrench in the discussion when I > brought up that my jobsite requires a non-blank screen saver to > be running on all platforms that are powered up. Of course > because of this, we also can't take advantage of power > management since that would result in a blank screen as well. > > Jim Powell > L3 Communications GSI > Senior Scientist/Engineer > AV-8B Weapons Integration > james.f.powell@xxxxxxxx <mailto:james.f.powell@xxxxxxxx> > (760)939-9089 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-desktop-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:fedora-desktop-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nils > > Philippsen > > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:57 > > To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop > > Subject: Re: Screensavers in FC3 > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:20, Steven Garrity wrote: > > > There was some talk a few months back about trimming down the > > > screensavers in Fedora Core to a more sane number. > > > > > > First, there was the issue of 3D screensavers bogging down > > machines that > > > couldn't handle them: > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2003-D > > ecember/msg00088.html > > > > > > Then, I floated a proposal to pare down the included screensavers: > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-F > > ebruary/msg00002.html > > > > > > Then, Bill Nottingham had my favourite proposal yet for the > > > screensavers: > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-F > ebruary/msg00006.html > > > > Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> wrote: > > > > > > xscreensaver - blank only, core > > > xscreensaver-extras - everything else > > > > > > Simple, clean, avoids flamewars. > > > > > > > Has there been any progress on this? Is it too late to do something for FC3? > > >From my POV this whole issue is 80% rather trivial (packaging) with 20% > coding that needs to be done before that can be the case: > > - xscreensaver needs to revert to "blank screen" if the user has chosen > anything other than {disable screen saver, blank screen}, likewise > xscreensaver-demo (which should rather be xscreensaver-config, > ...-prefs, ...) should only let you enable or disable blanking in that > case > - xscreensaver needs another means than X11 resources to let the > preferences tool know about the installed hacks, messing around with > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver is very cumbersome and > bug-prone. Something like a directory /etc/xscreensaver/hacks.d where > packages could just drop in small files describing their hacks would be > best IMO > > Both of these are not that trivial and would need to be accepted > upstream down the road -- we don't want to maintain such patches forever > > Nils > --behdad behdad.org -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
