Well,

The switch in terminology between 'screensaving' and 'screenlocking' may be 
useful in corporates. But at home it's less meaningfull/usefull (at least for 
me). And it doesn't seem to completly replace the previous screensaver 
functionality.

Previous screensavers had 2 different functionalities :
- screenwaiting : display nice things when the computer is idle-ing (slideshow, 
fancy animations ...), user-adjustable.
- screenlocking : lock the session access (for those who need to, optional and 
not mandatory).

The first functionality is missing and there's still no plans to replace it (as 
I understand).

I share the computer with my wife (2 different accounts). We always disable the 
user-locking functionality (no use and just annoying [1]). But since the move 
to gnome3, we really miss the old screensaving behaviour (ie after few minutes 
of inactivity, display a nice slideshow on the screen). 
I know we can :
1 - replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver, but then I can't find how to 
completly disable the locking functionality (particularly when we switch 
between sessions) so I dropped it
2 - replace gnome-screensaver, and write my own screenslideshow but it may well 
exceed my very low programming skills.

So we only have a sad blank screen for the moment.

The plan for screenlocking doesn't seem to be user-adjustable but instead a 
fixed design. But I could be wrong.

Thanks
Herve

[1] Does anyone knows how to EASILY switch between open sessions (I know I can 
CTRL+Fn, but it's too cryptic for my wife). There was a rapid-user-switch or 
something like that before. Now there's only a 'switch user' that leads to gdm 
and then you select the account and then each time you have to type in the 
password and finally you are... but it's a pain.
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