On Saturday 01 October 2011 04:46:29 Markus Slopianka wrote:
Is anybody aware of empiric studies for what (if at all) people use
screensavers these
days?
Personally I'd expect clock, news headlines, and photo slideshows to be the
top answers.
QML replacements should be available for the
On Saturday 01 October 2011, Markus Slopianka wrote:
Is anybody aware of empiric studies for what (if at all) people use
screensavers these days?
Personally I'd expect clock, news headlines, and photo slideshows to be the
top answers. QML replacements should be available for the top uses once
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Am Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:14:59 +0200
schrieb Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org:
But when compositing is turned off, you currently get the plain old
implementation including screen savers. And I don't want to change
that code.
Seconding Marco: Why?
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 23:49:50 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Martin Gräßlin wrote:
* drop screensaver support altogether, probably would create some troubles
as evil KDE removed screensavers
* add Plasma widget support to new screen locker implementation but drop
screensaver support (same
On Samstag 01 Oktober 2011 10:52:04 Marco Martin wrote:
that's what the support of plamoids on screensaver is for ;)
I already understood that but as a screensaver (you know: to actually save
screens from
damage, incl. LCDs) a few additional features are required. At the very least,
plasmoids
On Samstag 01 Oktober 2011 12:36:12 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
we should also stress that if things like OpenGL screensavers are important
enough to people, that support for things to draw moving things on screen
when locked can be created anew.
We already have KWin effects – even gimmicky ones
On Samstag 01 Oktober 2011 14:10:39 Marco Martin wrote:
for saving from damage, there is a thing called power saving :p
Doesn't help the people who want a huge clock as screensaver without damaging
their
displays. It has to move.
A Plasma containment whose widgets can float and bounce from
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
Me and Bjorn have been discussing extensively about how to improve the current
situation with Power Management in KDE. We focused on simplicity, still
without losing power-user features. And we have a plan I'd like to share and
get some feedback on.
The
On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
Me and Bjorn have been discussing extensively about how to improve the
current situation with Power Management in KDE. We focused on simplicity,
still without losing power-user features. And we have a
On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:39:38 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
Not sure about coupling them with activities...
There are actually two other issues I have right now with the power
management:
Well, those are actually bugs, hence slightly OT. Anyway...
1) it has per-user settings.
This
On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery
applet will be removed. It will, although, be replaced by a toggle button
for inhibition: by enabling/disabling it, power management
On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:55:54 Marco Martin wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery
applet will be removed. It will, although, be replaced by a toggle button
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dario Freddi drf54...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:55:54 Marco Martin wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery
On Saturday 01 October 2011 17:01:34 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
Your use of the word activity here is referring to plasma
activities? Or Activity is just the name of user-defined power
profiles?
Plasma activities
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On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
this i guess would be a kind of presentation mode...
would it still cover enough use cases?
maybe together with activities could be enough, not 100% sure
Well, covering all use cases is something I don't feel I can guarantee for
anything
Hi,
On 1 October 2011 17:59, plasma-devel-requ...@kde.org wrote:
Message: 5
At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery
applet
will be removed. It will, although, be replaced by a toggle button for
inhibition: by enabling/disabling it, power management features
On Saturday 01 October 2011 18:15:53 Lukas wrote:
Hi,
On 1 October 2011 17:59, plasma-devel-requ...@kde.org wrote:
Message: 5
At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery
applet
will be removed. It will, although, be replaced by a toggle button for
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
unless we give them something better and communicate with understanding.
Users will not accept your something better unless their favorite existing
screensaver runs on it. No amount of communication can change that. (And
please don't shoot the messenger! I don't even use
On Saturday, October 01, 2011 16:27:48 Dario Freddi wrote:
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
[...]
I can't comment on activities, never used them, nor feel the need to use
them. So this sounds more like the power management applet would force
me to create and use activites.
What I can
On Saturday 01 October 2011 19:33:06 Andras Mantia wrote:
On Saturday, October 01, 2011 16:27:48 Dario Freddi wrote:
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
[...]
I can't comment on activities, never used them, nor feel the need to use
them. So this sounds more like the power
On 1 October 2011 21:36, plasma-devel-requ...@kde.org wrote:
Something like having Power mode switch:
[Performance] [Normal] [Battery stretch]
where Normal is current static profile; Performance - temporary disables
any limitations; Battery stretch - disables everything, that can
On Saturday 01 October 2011 21:21:40 Andras Mantia wrote:
[Please reply on both lists if you cross-posted, otherwise dicussion will
be more fragmented. I just looked up the plasma list out of curiosity,
normally I don't follow, so your mail would have been missed.]
Dario Freddi wrote:
I
On Saturday 01 October 2011 23:41:42 Anders Lund wrote:
On Lørdag den 1. oktober 2011, Scott Kitterman wrote:
I don't understand how creating a new activity represents an improvement
to the user. If I understand the proposal correctly the user will only
use the power manager to change
Andras Mantia wrote:
I don't like if software forces me to work in a certain way. And with
activities I'm not alone. I'm happy without them, even if they are useful
for others. Just as I'm mostly happy also without virtual desktops (which
are a must for others). People are different, they have
Dario Freddi wrote:
we plan to remove the Warning step
Uhm, wait a minute… Do you mean you will just suspend or shut down the
machine with no warning whatsoever? If that's really what you mean, to me,
this sounds incredibly rude and might lead to data loss – especially if
shut down is the
Luca Beltrame wrote:
After all, in the KDE Forums we don't see anymore people lamenting the
lack of icons on desktop by default...
Probably because the distros are not shipping 4.7 yet. (4.1 to 4.6 actually
do show desktop icons by default, in a folder view widget which is set up by
default.)
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