Comment 2 for bug 273667

Here is my point of view on this. Eventually it would make sense to either have some savers on the CD by default or at least hook a notification into the configuration module, so that users can obtain them more easily.

But. I am, politically, against using a screensaver by default. No matter how simple the saver might be, it will still consume more power than the black-screen-without-any-animation. Now that might not sound like a whole lot power saving. But consider: if every PC on this planet would come without screensaver pre-selected (no matter which OS) and say every machine is in screensaver mode one hour per year...

Eitherway our options are: either use an uberfancy opengl saver (which means we need kscreensaver to at least provide a fallback and slug-detection like kwin) or we don't use one by default but ease the pain to get some good ones installed (which mostly means hooking a notification into the module, so we don't waste CD space on savers). This absolutely needs to be discussed at a Kubuntu Meeting or the Kubuntu development mailing list which means that someone should ensure it somehow ends up in either of them ;)