Re: Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

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On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:08 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> On 2/17/06, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2/18/06, Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > One more issue is that the gnome-screensaver "fade out" when it starts
> > > to display a screensaver takes way too long.  I think the fade should last,
> > > at most, about four seconds.  Right now, it seems to take about ten
> > > seconds to fade out before starting to display the screensaver.
> >
> > I think this is to give a grace period so you can notice the
> > screensaver activating and do something before the screen gets locked.
> > I don't think the current way of doing it is very good. Instead, the
> > screensaver should start normally, without a long fade in, but extend
> > the grace period into the running of the screensaver a bit.
> 
> Wow, that would be a huge improvement!  Maybe some Gnome folks
> at Redhat could submit this change or maintain a patch for it?
> If I am not mistaken, the vast majority of key Gnome development
> people still work for Ximian/Novell, so I don't know how practical
> this could be.
> 

I'm sure interesting proposals like this will be most welcome
on screensaver-list@xxxxxxxxx

Matthias

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