Gnome Screensaver issues?

[Oliver Grawert]

Am Sonntag, den 12.03.2006, 23:17 +0000 schrieb Tristan Wibberley:
> Oliver Grawert wrote:

> No, but there are only three commonly used methods. xscreensaver, 
> kscreensaver, and gnome-screensaver -
not true, there are about 5-10 different methods for every single
screensaver, depending on the apps that calls the method, the smartness
of the programmer of these apps etc, some emulate X activity through the
XTest extension, some make system calls to {k,g,x}screensaver-command,
others kill the screensaver daemon and start it on exit again etc ...

> 
> Does it need to be done upstream? And does it need to be done for 
> xscreensaver? It is gnome-screensaver that has been chosen, so it's only 
> that one that needs to be patched.
it needs to be done in a spec on freedesktop imho to justify the same
behavior for all screensaver implementations, then you only need to call
one method and have a guarantee that even a new implementation will
work.

just for your information, i have currently 3 bugs open about apps that
start the screensaver unwanted which i plan to fix durnig the next week,
as long as i dont see concrete bugs i miss seeing the urgency of this
request at all...

so please, please, please file bugs :)

ciao
	oli
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