http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1859
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-06 14:50 -------
*sigh* Is this really that important?
Did you read that article the other day about interface cruft? That's
exactly what screensavers are. They were introduced because, years and
years and years and years ago, if you left a monitor displaying the same
thing for too long, it'd burn the image into the screen. I don't
remember the last time I ever heard of this happening to anyone, and it
certainly isn't going to happen on any decent modern monitor. Added to
which, monitor power saving was invented several years ago. I don't
remember the last time I *saw* a screensaver on my machine. It displays
whatever's on the screen for ten minutes. Then it turns itself off. Is
there any logical reason at *all* to use a screensaver any more? No. But
people are used to them. So they still sit there, wasting space and
development time. Abolish the buggers, I say.
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I guess this isn't the typical kind of bug, but I wanted to make sure that a
comment about this went into the system. As I just posted on the Mandrake
Cooker list, I think kdeartwork is a very important package for many (most)
desktop users, and probably is needed a lot more than, say, koffice-devel
or xearth. How about finding a way to include it? It's ashame that in 9.0,
and it looks like now 9.1, GNOME users get screensavers and such, but
KDE users don't. :-(
Thanks,
Tim
