Bug 53542

Summary:	wish: display dynamically generated messages in kbanner
Product:	[Unmaintained] kscreensaver	Reporter:	J. Woch <woch>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bab, mgraesslin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	implements the above solution implements the above solution

Description J. Woch 2003-01-28 21:35:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.99)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

It would be great if kbanner could display dynamically generated messages instead of those ones typed into the setup dialog box. E.g., each time the saver is activated another fortune is displayed, or a randomly selected part from the linux sources, or some news, or whatever.

Solution: provide a method to execute a (shell) command and feed its output into kbanner. 
The (hopefully) attached patch performs this by (optionally) executing the string of the message QLineEditbox as being a (shell) command.  Kiosk mode is checked, sanity not.

Comment 1 J. Woch 2003-01-28 21:38:54 UTC

Created attachment 824 [details]
implements the above solution

Comment 2 J. Woch 2003-01-28 22:23:53 UTC

Created attachment 826 [details]
implements the above solution

(forgot i18n)

Comment 3 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-04-12 12:40:30 UTC

*** Bug 98746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jeffrey 2007-05-10 01:38:47 UTC

I too would like to have a more configurable banner.  Initially I wanted to display just a text file, like "I am in the garden."  A shell script may be even nicer though; a KDE Taskbar textbox would be amazing! :)

I like the request and second it.

Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2015-01-23 09:39:53 UTC

The screen locker architecture changed with Plasma 5. The classic screen savers are no longer supported. The 4.x series won't see any further feature development, so this feature request won't be implemented as it doesn't apply to our current version any more.

I want to thank you for your feature suggestion and I'm sorry that we were not able to provide the requested feature before we retired the affected component.