Screensaver in Mountain Lion seems to be worse than in Lion, why?

Similarly, I don't use iphoto to categorize my photos. Rather I have them in folders on finder. Before you could just choose pictures and all subfolders would appear as images within the screensaver. Now it won't show photos under the parent folder. Very annoying. And I miss that random photo screensaver as well.

Somebody in Apple decided that we do not need that anymore. Apples God complex is beginning to become smelly. I too want my old screen saver back

I too have this problem. I don't use iPhoto to manage my pictures as I don't like the way it doesn't search and update [such as iTunes does with music], so I would like to be able to select several folders and have the screensaver look into subfolders for more pictures rather than just showing the images in the parent folder. Annoying as I am sure it is not that hard to do.

Your question:

"Screensaver in Mountain Lion seems to be worse than in Lion, why?"

Yes, it is worse. Like the others who've posted here, I can no longer get the screensaver to go randomly through a folder of my photographs.

As to "why", my own conclusion is that there are stupid people making many of the decisions at Apple now. Stupid in the sense that they don't understand that users will organise their photographs in folders and will put those folders wherever's most convenient.

The loss of support for nested folders (subfolders, folder recursion) amazed me. Screen saver has supported that in OS X for as long as I can remember.

Here's a feedback link for OS X comments. Worth a try:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I too miss that randaom photo toss screensaver. It fascinated everyone who watched it because the photos were of everyone and everything in my file. None of the new options even come close.

Amen to that. But it seems Apple no longer listens and that will be its downfall.

Apple needs to change name to: Big Brother.... No longer use an iphone, and growing more frustrated by many things here

If what you want to do is use iPhoto pictures, go to System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver. In the left hand side select a slide show. That should bring up 'Source' in the right side. From the source drop down menu, there are options to add iPhoto.

Albert...Please let us know how you make out.

Topcop, that was my default screensaver as well. I'm an illustrator, and I found that screensaver mesmerizing and great for getting past creative blocks. The closest in the OSX mountain lion is a version that has photos sliding up the screen slowly. It's anemic in comparison to the old one.

Why Apple seems to have this knack for "fixing" (i.e. breaking) things that they'd actually gotten right. :/