Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: Slackware Packages OS: Linux My machine at work is slow (PIII/500Mhz) and lacks hardware 3D. So, GLX screensavers don't work very well, if at all. (Mesa is so slow on my machine that certain modules, like FlipScreen, can lock up the keyboard entirely and prevent me from entering my password.) It would be great to be able to choose only certain screensavers when I use the "Random" module, which is more like the way XScreensaver works.
Agreed, I would quite like this as well so I'll think about implementing this :)
I agree too that it would be nice to be able to select screensavers individually when using the random mode. This would be not only handy for disactivating computationally intensive screensavers, but also screensavers not enjoyed by the user. Maybe it could be achieved with a similar interface as used by the gtk xscreensaver setup menu that appears when configuring the xscreensaver package within the screensaver list (i.e. check buttons in front of each screensaver entry). Thanks, Beat
Unfortunately, I don't have too much more to add than a simple "Me too!" My preference is to see random screensavers, but as already pointed out, there are some screensavers that run slowly on given hardware, and not every user enjoys every screensaver option. I'll also agree that a similar interface to Xscreensaver (checkboxes per each screensaver) would probably be the most familiar to people and cause the least confusion. Additionally, it seems that users might want to select how often the random screensaver changes (i.e., every time the screensaver is called or every x minutes). Mischa.
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I coded this exact functionality for KDE 3.1cvs, but it wasn't accepted for reasons that I don't understand. I still have the patch (approx. 20K), and although it probably won't compile cleanly, there should be very few changes required to get it up to speed. I modelled it after xscreensaver, so there is a dropdown box to select between using one screensaver or multiple random savers. When in random mode, there is a checkbox next to each saver. The actual random screensaver itself should be removed. Have a look at the following links: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~stephena/single.png http://www.cs.mun.ca/~stephena/multiple.png Send me an email if you want the diff. Steve A.
What reason was given? And, you can also attach your patch to this report.
I suppose if you like every single screen saver that ships with KDE than the reason would not be obvious. I think it would be nice for one to have the ability to randomly choose a screen saver from a subset of all of them. About the patch, I'm sorry. I was not aware that I needed to have fixed the problem and generated a patch from the fix in order to submit a wishlist item. Quoting Stephan Binner <binner@kde.org>: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. > You are a voter for the bug, or are watching someone who is. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57572 > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From binner kde org 2004-05-28 18:02 ------- > What reason was given? And, you can also attach your patch to this report. > >
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please implement this. there are tons of cool screensavers for kde now and it is very hard to pick only one. i can't use random because there are also many i don't like. and deinstalling all the unwanted screensavers is a solution that is rude to the computer (and other users of the box if applicable).
Just a thought: If this feature is implemented, I thought of an extension to it: The option to be told which screensaver was last playing. That way, you can quickly remove bad screensavers from the list if they irk you.
Wow, this is almost 3 years old! /me too please!
I should add that now that KDE groups screensavers in a tree list, the deactivation feature should also use a tree list. This will make it easy to enable or disable entire categories of screensavers.
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Wow, old bug. I would really like to see this as well.
I think it would be a very useful idea and I see it is quite old. I just would like to now if it could be possible in KDE 4.5 Thank you very much
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Patch submitted for review at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106524/
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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. I'm especially sorry that this feature didn't make it although it had a patch.