Robin Laing wrote:
Privacy.
I like a screensaver to lock and hide my screen. Where I work, screen locks are mandated. If I don't have one, I will be forced to use Windows. It needs to be automatic and hide the information on the screen.
But the point is that those X screensavers did NOT lock the screen in a secure way. Plasma 5 provides a secure screen locker now. It just doesn't do those fancy animations (but only a blank screen with an unlocking dialog), mainly because nobody developed such animations in a way compatible with the new screen locking framework yet. As far as I know, the interfaces (based on QML) are already there, it just needs somebody to write the QML code.
Kevin Kofler