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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Issues of fade to black effect before screensaver?
From:       Zak Jensen <coolguyzak () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-09-14 15:30:58
Message-ID: 21bb44f305091408304274e3b2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9/14/05, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:12:38PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 18:19, Christoph Wiesen wrote:
> > > Am I missing something here usability wise? From all I can tell this
> > > should be a good improvement over current behaviour.
> >
> > All that is missing is a really fast (and working on all machines)
> > implementation that does what you want.
> > No need to ask the usability people about this; get a technical guy to
> > care :)
> >
> well, there is another problem: there are screensavers that operate on
> the current screen content. they are insecure by design, but they still
> exist. how would fading them in look like?

It seems to me that the best way to enable this is to track which ones
modify a screen capture, and don't fade in to them. Only the others
would have fade in effects.
 
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