[Bug 32977] Re: no ability to configure the different screensavers

[Sam Liddicott]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 22007 ***

I think you mistook me for a supporter of the foul and ghastly and
unusable and undesirable nothingness that the gnome-screensaver
configurator currently is.

And quite possibly windows doesn't let you lock-down
screen-saver-settings via the policy editor, I haven't used it for - oh
so long - but GENERALLY the policy editor lets you choose which
configuration items should be locked down rather than locking them all
down which is what gnome seems to being doing in the name of ab^H^usability.

Sam

* Carey Schug wrote, On 03/11/06 15:39:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 22007 ***
>
> Which windows was that?  on my win-xp I could configure screen saver 
> settings from my unprivileged account by default.  I didn't even know it 
> could be restricted without adding external software packages, as I know 
> was required in earlier windows versions.  I think you must have 
> selected something in windows to restrict the screen savers.  Now, true, 
> unprivileged users cannot install NEW screen savers, but that is not 
> what was being discussed, the problem report is only about changing 
> options on screen savers that come on the ubuntu install CD.
>
> Anyway, I don't care what the default is, I just want it to be EASY to 
> allow freedom to change settings. 
>
> If the default is no change allowed, but I can go in as root and check a 
> box somewhere that allows changing settings, I would be happy. 
>
> I have done the "work around" and it is messy.  You have to edit config 
> files by hand to disable the gnome screen saver, then install 
> xscreensaver, and even then you LOSE functionality (password locking of 
> screen and/or hibernate, which I don't have to have so I do do without).
>
> Even if configuring was restricted to root that would be acceptable to 
> me.  But the only configuring that can be done on a default ubuntu 
> system is by manually editing the individual screen saver config files.  
> And, i presume, kill and restart the daemon, since there was no change 
> when I didn't do that.  Anything that requires vi or even gedit is *NOT* 
> easy, and even gedit didn't work for me except by the special first 
> userid (which I put aside and don't use as I think it has special 
> privileges like root) unless something is done to manually configure the 
> display.  When I attempted to do that, I used vi.
>
> Also, one final nit, the gnome screen saver doesn't have most of the 
> favorite themes that I liked in xscreensaver, and, in general, has more 
> the feel of a windows screen saver to me, and i want to be as different 
> as possible.
>
> If Ubuntu wants to change the default for screen savers that grab photos 
> to NOT grab them from the web, to avoid a risk of porn, I would support 
> that.  That was an unlikely, but reasonable concern about locking down 
> screen saver configuring (NOT including installing new ones).  And I 
> never said there weren't control freaks in Linux, just that in Windows 
> there were FAR MORE.
>
> Sam Liddicott wrote:
>   
>> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 22007 ***
>>
>> * Carey Schug wrote, On 03/11/06 03:49:
>>   
>>     
>>> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 22007 ***
>>>
>>> I know in the windows world that system administrators are usually
>>> control freaks that micromanage what users can do.  But the FREE in free
>>> software means that far more Linux users expect freedom.  It is not
>>> logical that in windows world the default is freedom and system changes
>>> must be made to add controls, but that in a Linux world the default is
>>> control, and one must go find feedom with no help.  At least make it
>>> easy to return to the old xscreensaver or gnome one that is equivalent.
>>>
>>> Please do not make Linux emulate the worst of windows.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
>

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no ability to configure the different screensavers
https://launchpad.net/bugs/32977