Clock screensaver?

[David Armour]

Hello,

>
> From:
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> Date:
> Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:25:29 -0300
>
>> Thanks. I was actually looking for an analog clock like the one in
>> Kubuntu.
>>     
> Ah, never mind.  Obviously you knew about that one :-)  Try installing it -
> I'm not sure it will have any obvious dependencies on KDE.
>   
I'd sure like to know how to do that! Screensaver themes are stored in 
/usr/share/applications/screensavers. Kde screensavers, on the other 
hand, ....are stored in /usr/share/applnk/System/Screensavers. And I do 
tend to get hung up -- still -- on the ol' permissions issue. Still, 
could it be as simple as copying kclock.kss from 
/usr/share/applnk/System/Screensavers into the appropriate 
gnome-specific subdirectory? The hell you say!

I've been following this thread with some interest. Since switching to 
Gnome from the Kubuntu desktop a while back, I've mostly only missed 
Kubuntu's analog clock screensaver, a fabulously useful little piece of 
software originally written by Melchior Franz. It's fabulously useful in 
that those of us with declining eyesight can see what time it is from 
across a room, or in fact, from another room when a connecting door is 
open. [I don't have x-ray vision just yet!] I even added to the 
bug/feature request comments in Launchpad, back in 2004.

Gnome scaled back its screensaver offerings around the same time I was 
switching, for reasons that remain mostly opaque to me, although the 
reduction in offerings may have had something to do with cutting down 
the list of usual suspects in computer crashes. Of the few things that 
seem to crash the otherwise-robust Ubuntu desktop, screensaver issues 
seem to crop up in bug tracker listings surprisingly often. 
Coincidentally, the last time my computer stopped working and needed a 
complete manual power-off and re-start/login, I had most recently 
'up-graded' a couple of screensaver files via the update manager.

From:  Wed Feb 4 20:51:46 UTC 2004 [new in KDE 3.2]!

* kclock.kss -- a native KDE screen saver that shows a moving or centered analog clock. Melchior Franz

Hth.