ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

[Kevin Kofler]

Ivan Čukić wrote:
>> 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
> 
> No plasma release had the folderview by default. Some of the distros
> had (have) the folder view as default containment, but that is NOT our
> default.

The default containment was the plain/empty desktop (not the folder view),
*but* 00-defaultLayout.js used to put a folder view widget showing the
xdg-user-dir for Desktop (i.e. ~/Desktop or a translation of it) on that
desktop containment for all new users. This got removed for 4.7 by the
following commit:
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/70e746d3fae467c52ab91cb7e8b5b10f2519248b

        Kevin Kofler