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Subject:    Issues of fade to black effect before screensaver?
From:       Christoph Wiesen <chris () deadhand ! com>
Date:       2005-09-13 16:19:15
Message-ID: 200509131819.15543.chris () deadhand ! com
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Hello,

while lookin through some old bug reports of mine I stubled updon this one:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86683

This is about a fade to black effect before a screensaver starts.
This way when the time is up so that the screensaver should start the screen 
would slowly - over some seconds (max 5) - become dimmer and finally fade to 
a full black. Then the actual screensaver starts.

This way the user will not be interrupted while for example reading something 
when the screen saver kicks in. Normally he would face a black screen 
instantly and only moving the mosue would drop him back to his desktop, 
effectively loosing any focus he might have had at a vertain text passage or 
on screen element.
With the fade to black change this would not happen. When the screen slowly 
starts to fade everything will still be readable for a while and the user 
will notice it before loosing his or her focus. He might then bump the mouse 
or press a key to stop the screensaver and keep his concentration on what he 
was doing.

Am I missing something here usability wise? From all I can tell this should be 
a good improvement over current behaviour.

Cheers,
Chris
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