Gnome Screensaver issues?

[Wouter Stomp]

On 2/21/06, Diamond Software <diamondsw at mac.com> wrote:
> I've been following the issues regarding Gnome Screensaver on the
> Ubuntu community forums, and just wanted to raise it here prior to
> the UI freeze (as suggested). In a nutshell, many screensavers
> require options to be configured and the Gnome Screensaver has no way
> of setting these. Performance and responsiveness have also been noted
> as problems.
>
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=120071
>

With the feature freeze coming very soon now, could deviating from
upstream and adding a configure button be seriously considered? In the
mentioned forum thread there is practically an unanonymous consensus
that the screensavers should be configurable.

Cheers,

Wouter.