On 2/17/06, n0dalus n0dalus+redhat@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/18/06, Miles Lane miles.lane@gmail.com wrote:
One more issue is that the gnome-screensaver "fade out" when it starts to display a screensaver takes way too long. I think the fade should last, at most, about four seconds. Right now, it seems to take about ten seconds to fade out before starting to display the screensaver.
I think this is to give a grace period so you can notice the screensaver activating and do something before the screen gets locked. I don't think the current way of doing it is very good. Instead, the screensaver should start normally, without a long fade in, but extend the grace period into the running of the screensaver a bit.
Wow, that would be a huge improvement! Maybe some Gnome folks at Redhat could submit this change or maintain a patch for it? If I am not mistaken, the vast majority of key Gnome development people still work for Ximian/Novell, so I don't know how practical this could be.
Miles