-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 March 2003 19:39, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:26, andre wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 09:17, waschk wrote: > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-06 > > > 09:17 ------- Hey, this is no important package, it's 12 MB of stuff > > > that can be better used for applications. > > > > divide it up in essential and pretty > > Except none of it's essential, because the system works without it. > No-one *needs* a screensaver, let alone hundreds of 'em.
Well, with the same logic you could as well argue, that nobody *needs* KDE or Gnome, since you work with plain X as well. Definitely true, but also not for everybody. The 'hundreds' of screensavers is nonsense - there are just 23 of them in there, some pretty "standard" - e.g. morph3d or lines. If even NT included them, we now remove them as redundant ... Moreover, the package contains some wallpapers and other things too. For many people a screensaver is more important than e.g. having several kernel versions and lots of different window managers/desktop environments available on CD's, since they have no idea what they are for and how to use them. They will just stick with the default KDE. Do not underestimate the power of eye candy, it is in many cases the point which sells. First question of my girlfriend when I upgraded her 8.2 to 9.0 was - "where is my favorite wallpaper ??". She does not give a damn about a lot's of stuff she has on the CD, but she want's a pretty desktop. How would you explain to her, that the upgrade made it look "worse", but "you actually do not need that" ? Fortunately, she knows better and spent a good time learning how to work with Linux (she is a nurse, for the record), but that's not the general case. Then there was an argument, that e.g. the screen burn-in is a non-issue. Look at Slashdot and search a bit, you will find an article pointing out exactly the opposite - the burn-in is the same as it always was, just is not seen so often, because of the screensavers and various DPMS modes used. I would consider this package quite essential for a desktop oriented distro, you should not have to go and download something as basic as a screensaver. Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Z6B6n11XseNj94gRAjutAJ9QF7hFgBYAwFlwUfGEXG8Wpb9X+QCfbQcq B5Fy2JxofFRJJ/dWk0N7zNw= =ZR46 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
