Re: Fwd: [Usability] Technical language in applet menus

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 18:30 -0700, Kirk Bridger wrote:
> I'm still not clear on when a user should ever have to "restart a
> screensaver".  That makes no real sense for a desktop.

Maybe you never play games or watch videos or listen to music
with visualization? :-)

It would probably make more sense for Totem to disable the
screensaver while it's running, same with other programs,
but the mechanism to do that isn't altogether clear right now.


> An alternative to
> > disabling the screensaver, would be an option to disable the locking
> > of the screen. any thoughts??

There are more use cases for disabling the screensaver that I can see
than for stopping it from locking.

Liam

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