Screensavers in FC3

[Will Cohen]

Powell, James F CONT wrote:
> 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.

What is the logic behind this policy? Is this to make sure that someone 
doesn't leave a computer unsecured? If so, does the computer need to 
show that the screen is locked or the person is logged out? Are KVM 
forbidden?

-Will

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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
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>>Ed Mack wrote:
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>>>>>>Simple, clean, avoids flamewars.
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>>>That's a nice way to handle it, but it's only really aimed 
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>>at the geek
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>>>population. 'Bootstrapping GCC' isn't something many normal 
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>>users do.
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>>>I like the idea of including a few 'pretty' screensavers 
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>>the user can
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>>>choose to run from the control panel if they feel the urge 
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>>to customise
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>>>- otherwise people can become disalusioned, and people will happily
>>>judge their first Linux experience by the quality of given 
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>>screensavers.
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>>>A lot of the Xscreensavers need to be taken to the pasture and shot,
>>>they are /so/ 1983
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>>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.
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>>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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