ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 03 October 2011 21:31:19 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > What would you say if KDE Plasma would no longer support X Screensavers?
> > * I would switch to another DE
> > * I would complain
> > * I would miss them but could live without them
> > * Don't use screensavers, it doesn't affect me
> > * Don't care
> 
> You forgot option 6:
> * Come up with some buggy hack to use xscreensaver directly (maybe even with 
> a custom idle detector which runs it in test mode, you never know what 
> "creative" hacks people come up with), advertise it loudly as THE solution 
> to "fix" screen savers in KDE Plasma, then rush the forums together with all 
> the followers using that "fix" to complain loudly about everything that 
> breaks due to the hack, blaming Plasma for it.
> (because that's exactly what I expect to happen).
Well if they do I promise to ship an update to kwin to ensure that xscreensaver is stacked underneath the desktop shell 
;-)
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
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