https://www.dennogumi.org/tags/screensaver/ Recent content in Screensaver on dennogumi.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us &copy; 2026 Einar under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Some images are AI-generated. Header design by [Melissa Adkins](https://melissaadkins.com) with [assets from Freepik](https://freepik.com). Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:26:37 +0000 https://www.dennogumi.org/2011/10/screensavers-and-the-kde-workspaces-your-opinion-is-needed/ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:26:37 +0000 https://www.dennogumi.org/2011/10/screensavers-and-the-kde-workspaces-your-opinion-is-needed/ <p>Recently in the Plasma mailing list, KDE developers have discussed a new screen-locking implementation that could be added to the upcoming 4.8 release of the KDE Workspaces. The first reason to do so was to solve some security constraints of the existing implementation. As an added bonus, screen locking should be also more aestetically pleasing.</p> <p>There is however a trade-off: such implementation would mean that screensavers that rely on X (also called <em>X screensavers</em>) would not be compatible. The current plan is to have a fallback mechanism if a user has a screen saver configured, and remove the support for X scrensavers entirely by 4.9. It is the intention of the developers to ultimately provide a way to make screensavers with QtQuick (QML) and in a way that they could be shared via GHNS (e.g., places like kde-look.org).</p>