[Portland] Screen saver questions / proposal

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi guys,

I have to say that I agree with both of you, partially :)

While I agree with Aaron that  dumping all kind of .desktop files into the 
locations "reserved" for applications isn't a good idea and has to be taken 
care of before it gets to be "the usual way to do it", I agree with Jeremy 
that an application, which is capable of being used as a screensaver, should 
not be required to install itself into a "plugin" section as well, possibly 
requiring two different .desktop files being kept in sync.

I imaging programs like Amarok (or other media players) being used in a 
screensaver like fashion, they could just indicate this capability in their 
usual .desktop file and whatever GUI allows screensaver setup/choice would 
also list it.

The question is how does the .desktop file tell which command to invoke for 
screensaver-mode.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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