On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:49:06AM +0100, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > no, removing features is not a regression. It is the decision to remove the > feature. The use case for screen savers does no longer exist or when did you > last have a screen which needs to be saved? For background reading I > recommend > [1].
I still have CRT screens, and plasma displays (yes, ironic or something) are highly susceptible to burn-ins as well. LCD displays usually only have transient burn-ins, but it's still annoying. OLED displays seem to be more susceptible to burn-ins than plasma displays according to some sources. So no, the use case hasn't disappeared at all (it's still the same as it was 20 years ago). And I still really like to have the nice asciiquarium to show off whenever I leave my computer. But if you are going to remove screensaver support, at least do that completely, and don't leave a half-broken implementation in place (and mark the bugs as related to it as invalid). -- Martin Sandsmark Screensaver afficionado _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
