From kde-devel  Mon Jul 01 20:49:12 2002
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:49:12 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [Patch - untested] KControl screensaver dialog
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On Monday 01 July 2002 01:23 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> this still doesn't cover the situation where (for whatever reason) there
> isn't a screensaver set up, and the user may actually mean it when they
> say, "i don't want a screen saver. ever."

With your patch they would still get one when they choose "lock". (The blan=
k=20
one)

In the current state it is not possible to say "I want to have this fancy=20
screensaver but I only want to use it when I explictly lock my desk, I don'=
t=20
want to have the screensaver kicking in automatically". I think that's a=20
needless restriction.

> perhaps kdesktop_lock should be enhanced to default to the blank screen
> saver if none is set and the user is attempting to lock their desktop,
> something like:

Yes, this makes sense, regardless of whether we change the screensaver conf=
ig=20
dialog or not.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org  |   SuSE Labs KDE Developer  |  bastian@suse.com

 
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