Gnome Screensaver issues?

[Aigars Mahinovs]

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On 2/22/06, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Peter Whittaker <pwwnow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > imo yes, its confusing as hell. gnome-screensaver should
> > > conflict with xscreensaver.
> >
> > Absolutely: They do the same thing and having two in the menu makes the
> > distro look unpolished, confused, and unprofessional. Make one the
> > default and make others conflict with it. That should be the base
> > behaviour.
>
> Also it is still not clear what screensaver will actually activate on
> timeout and whether other tools (totem, mplayer, xine, tvtime, ...)
> will be able to stop gnomescreensaver from activation when needed.
>
> Both these problems must be solved before even considering switching
> to gnomescreensaver.
>
> Also it seems that gnomescreensaver developers have a NIH syndrome -
> why could they not simply make a frontend to the existing and well
> known xscreensaver? why must it be another application? a few hooks in
> the xscreensaver code to lauch appropriate configuration frontend and
> password request frontend would be much more useful.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>     Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigarius at debian.org
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Best regards,
    Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigarius at debian.org
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