ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

[Kevin Kofler]

Luca Beltrame wrote:
> After all, in the KDE Forums we don't see anymore people lamenting the
> lack of icons on desktop by default...

Probably because the distros are not shipping 4.7 yet. (4.1 to 4.6 actually 
do show desktop icons by default, in a folder view widget which is set up by 
default.) Or because users upgrading from a previous version of Plasma get 
to keep their folder view, and those are the ones already testing 4.7. Or 
maybe because the distros are now overriding this broken 4.7 default, as 
Fedora is now doing for Fedora 16 (as of kde-settings-4.7-7.fc16). (We 
restore the good old folder view widget, otherwise people won't even see an 
icon to install their live CD to the hard disk: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740676 . Note that this fix is 
actually not yet in F16 Beta, it will be in F16 Final. And any complaints 
about us actually using the JavaScript-based customization feature Plasma 
explicitly offers for distributions to use will be sent straight to 
/dev/null…)

I'm fairly sure that when the first major distro starts shipping with 4.7 
without a custom Plasma init script enabling the folder view of ~/Desktop 
one way or the other (either as a widget as in 4.6 or in Fedora 16, or the 
KDE-3-style "folder view as desktop" mode), complaints will start popping in 
in droves.

        Kevin Kofler