Gnome Screensaver issues? xscreensaver-commmand compatibility

[Paul Sladen]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 12.03.2006, 21:07 +0000 schrieb Tristan Wibberley:
> > Wouldn't it be easier and less bug prone to just make
> > gnome-screensaver  support the defacto standard notification mechanism
> since nearly every app out there uses its own mechanism to make sure the
> screensaver doesnt kick in, you'd have to rewrite xscreensaver ...

Oliver, what's your feeling on a simple 'xscreensaver-glue' package that:

  Depends: gnome-screensaver | kscreensaver
  Provides: xscreensaver
  Conflicts: xscreensaver

and provide an alternatives '/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command' that gets
marshalled through to whatever the actually running screensaver is.
This could just be installed in cases that where we're not installing
'xscreensaver'---such a the current desktop.

	-Paul
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