Seriously, thank you for your time spent :) Power saving is a very important topic. I just made it an invalid paper cut because no screensavers are used in a default install. I'll leave it to someone else to decide :-)
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Witold Szczerba <[email protected]>wrote: > Lightbreeze wrote 12 minutes ago: > Unfortunately a 'paper cut' should be a small usability issue that affects > many people and is quick and easy to fix. > > This is EXACTLY why I considered this issue a perfect fit for a 'paper > cut'. > It is usability issue and is extremely easy to fix, just get rid of > "invalid" screen savers and the issue is fixed. > > By the way: why, on Earth, have you asked me to enumerate all those > screen savers, which took me a while, just to change the status to > invalid after I did my job? > > -- > cpu-killer/power-eater screen savers > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390308 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid > Status in “xscreensaver” source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > There are many screen savers installed by default which are actually CPU > killers/power eaters. > I am sure majority of Ubuntu users do not have idea that the screen saver > of their choice takes 100% of CPU, which leads to shorten life of laptops > running on batteries, makes CPUs hot and in general eats power. > > I suggest getting rid of all that stupid screen savers. One step further > would be to implement extra warning message when given screen saver consumes > too much resources. > -- cpu-killer/power-eater screen savers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390308 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
