I think it's just removing things of a passing era gone by to save some space. The issues that screensavers solved were fixed in the hardware at least ten years ago. And as just a side note, my Windows 7 machine didn't ship with anything other than a blank screensaver, either.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
