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this is something like a 'micro-idea': it should not be very complex to implement however very useful on the 'frontend'.

The idea is simply stolen from Gnome, which is, being a brother project not a crime at all. Future might bring, that these to grow together somehow, combining their advantages, so...

Idea: Let also the KDE desktop fade slowly out before the screensaver actually kicks in!

why: this not only looks cute, nice, professional, smooth, elegant...
it is also very very useful. I often stumble into the screensaver watching e.g. a youtube clip. Using Gnome, this normally anoying thing is not so bad, because the screensaver becomes noticable right before it actually starts by dimming the desktop out slowly. I can move the mouse a bit and continue watching. easy. perfect.

Would be a nice solution for KDE too.

Useless, a shortcut to disable the screen-saver would be more useful and easier to implement.
When you can react with your mouse it won't take much time to deactivate the screen-saver.

thanks for the 'useless'.

I think both makes sense.

- I argue for months now for an easy screen-saver disabler (e.g. like MacOs Hot Corners or a simple invisible plasmoid, that can be placed anywhere)
- and the fadeout is simply one more thing that not only looks nice but has a purpose also (as I described) because it may happen that you have your mouse in the wrong place or forogt to disable the screen-saver then you see the fadeout and can save the situation... I am sure there is more...

incredion wrote:- I argue for months now for an easy screen-saver disabler (...)

I think the "Presentation" power profile is what you want, isn't it?

I don't think this is useful for watching movies - one time I watched one for two minutes wondering why they were in some dark place for so long - Turns out it faded to black really slowly and I didn't notice.

I do think having the screensaver fade in is nice visually, though.

R_Rios wrote:

incredion wrote:- I argue for months now for an easy screen-saver disabler (...)

I think the "Presentation" power profile is what you want, isn't it?

unfortunately completely nope!

See, what you need is a very quick access to the screensaver being on or off. I definitely do not have the time to go to system control, enter power management, change that and then sometime later watch my movie or whatever... even worse, I will definitely forget to go back and change that back and wonder days later, why I haven't seen my screensaver for such a long time.

solution is simple: mouse position on the desktop e.g. in one corner does the job, even a hotkey combination is too complicated.

keep in mind: when watching a move the most natural position of the mouse pointer is 'out of the way' in a corner.

incredion wrote:

R_Rios wrote:

incredion wrote:- I argue for months now for an easy screen-saver disabler (...)

I think the "Presentation" power profile is what you want, isn't it?

unfortunately completely nope!

See, what you need is a very quick access to the screensaver being on or off. I definitely do not have the time to go to system control, enter power management, change that and then sometime later watch my movie, do the presentation or whatever...

You can add a battery plasmoid which you can click to change the power profile.

Alec wrote:You can add a battery plasmoid which you can click to change the power profile.

Exactly. But I was thinking and, yes, that's a problem for desktop users, since a battery plasmoid is useless for them.

I agree that it's not an intuitive thing for a desktop user, yet if it just provides that one option that would make it very useful. I haven't tested it on a desktop machine, but I assume that it would still work in that way.

I'm for this idea if for no other reason than it adds a level of polish to the experience. Especially with techs like plymouth becoming the norm, I'm getting very used to smooth transitions.

I've always found the transition to the screensaver in KDE clunky and somewhat lackluster. I'll even point out one other thing that bugs me; The screensaver will load, and it takes another second for my screensaver plasmoids to clunk in, briefly jarring the screensaver.

If we did the fade-to-screensaver transition, I think we should also improve the plasmoid fade-in aswell.

This would be IMO a nice polish.

As for screensaver-during-movie issue, applications should block screensaver from starting with a simple D-Bus command:

org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Inhibit (QString application_name, QString reason_for_inhibit)

Marked as submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223575