On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > Em Quinta-feira 14 Maio 2009, às 13:45:41, Patryk Zawadzki escreveu: >> Ideally it's the power management interface you use to inhibit a >> screen so this should be agreed upon instead. Screensaver is just one >> of possible implementation details of the power saving mechanism. And >> a pretty but useless one as it tends to actually drain more power ;) > Screen savers weren't created to save power. They were created to save screens > from burn-in (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in) :-)
I am aware of their origin but that was back in time where turning on a monitor on took up to 5 minutes to let it "heat up" and ended around when old 15" LRNI CRTs died :) -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
