Has there been any thought cleaning up the screen savers?
Get rid of those that were made in the dark ages and arent worth a GPU cycle on todays modern graphic cards and defaulting to more of an eye candy to enhance end-user(s) experience.
JBG
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 06:39 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Has there been any thought cleaning up the screen savers?
Get rid of those that were made in the dark ages and arent worth a GPU cycle on todays modern graphic cards and defaulting to more of an eye candy to enhance end-user(s) experience.
Do you have anything more precise in terms of what you want to achieve? Having a list of screensavers that shouldn't be shipped, or that we should convert and add to gnome-screensaver would be useful.
Cheers
Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 06:39 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Has there been any thought cleaning up the screen savers?
Get rid of those that were made in the dark ages and arent worth a GPU cycle on todays modern graphic cards and defaulting to more of an eye candy to enhance end-user(s) experience.
Do you have anything more precise in terms of what you want to achieve? Having a list of screensavers that shouldn't be shipped, or that we should convert and add to gnome-screensaver would be useful.
Cheers
Yeah sorry about that.
The defaults are fine they are just missing some eye candy :)
Shall put together a list from both the X ones and the Gnome ones which I would like to see shipped with the default.
JBG
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 06:39 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Has there been any thought cleaning up the screen savers?
Get rid of those that were made in the dark ages and arent worth a GPU cycle on todays modern graphic cards and defaulting to more of an eye candy to enhance end-user(s) experience.
The only ones I have in the gnome-screensaver list are: blank, random, cosmos, fedora bubbles, gnome feet, the blue pop are squares, and the pictures folder slideshow. Which of these are you opposed to?
Also, we've been moving more to a model where the screen just turns off, in the name of saving power.
- ajax
Adam Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 06:39 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Has there been any thought cleaning up the screen savers?
Get rid of those that were made in the dark ages and arent worth a GPU cycle on todays modern graphic cards and defaulting to more of an eye candy to enhance end-user(s) experience.
The only ones I have in the gnome-screensaver list are: blank, random, cosmos, fedora bubbles, gnome feet, the blue pop are squares, and the pictures folder slideshow. Which of these are you opposed to?
The defaults are fine they are just missing some eye candy :)
Also, we've been moving more to a model where the screen just turns off, in the name of saving power.
That explains the bug I came across in anaconda when the screen went black after a while and I was unable to proceed with the install :)
So for us in the world that do have juice but dont have money :- ) ( Icelanders )
How can I turn this feature off..
And this *feature* only applies to run level 5 right?
JBG
2008/12/11 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg@hi.is:
Also, we've been moving more to a model where the screen just turns off, in the name of saving power.
That explains the bug I came across in anaconda when the screen went black after a while and I was unable to proceed with the install :)
That's certainly a bug, the screen should turn on as soon as you move your mouse or press a key.
More importantly, more screensavers can and probably should be added to the gnome-screensaver list. But the default behaviour should indeed be the one that saves the most power, thus power down the screen after a while of inactivity.
Actually it might be a good idea to add a "Note: screen savers are usually processor intensive and can drain your battery faster." to the gnome-screensaver preferences when on a laptop and the user chooses anything else than blank. Heck, maybe even make it unconditional and show it always for the environmentally clueless.
Rui
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