Screensavers in FC3

[Powell, James F CONT]

You know the only problem with that would be places like where I work where if your computer is on, it is required to have a screen saver, and that screen saver IS required to make it obvious that the computer is on.  Personally I don't want to have to go out and find screen savers when there are so many that are currently in the Fedora Core that handle this requirement.  Now I do also agree that a lot of the clutter could be removed, but there does need to be some non-blank screen savers left in.

Jim Powell
L3 Communications GSI
Senior Scientist/Engineer
AV-8B Weapons Integration
james.f.powell at navy.mil <mailto:james.f.powell at navy.mil>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-desktop-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-desktop-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Steven
> Garrity
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:53
> To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
> Subject: Re: Screensavers in FC3
> 
> 
> Ed Mack wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Simple, clean, avoids flamewars.
> >>> >
> > 
> > That's a nice way to handle it, but it's only really aimed 
> at the geek
> > population. 'Bootstrapping GCC' isn't something many normal 
> users do.
> > 
> > I like the idea of including a few 'pretty' screensavers 
> the user can
> > choose to run from the control panel if they feel the urge 
> to customise
> > - otherwise people can become disalusioned, and people will happily
> > judge their first Linux experience by the quality of given 
> screensavers.
> > A lot of the Xscreensavers need to be taken to the pasture and shot,
> > they are /so/ 1983
> 
> 
> I agree that a few simple/quality screensavers would be fine 
> to include 
> by default, but if the debate over which should stay will at 
> all delay 
> the removal of all the cruft, I'd say we go to blank-only.
> 
> I think blank-only is a better default for now, and we can work on 
> getting a couple (probably just one good simple Fedora logo 
> screensaver) 
> back in later on.
> 
> Steven Garrity
> 
> 
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