Gnome Screensaver issues? xscreensaver-commmand compatibility

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 12:06 +0000 schrieb 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.
i thought about it, yes, but i came to the conclusion that its not a
good alternative, since a "Conflicts: xscreensaver" will make it
impossible to have xubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop installed at the
same time ... thats bad in multiuser environments where people want to
use both desktops...

ciao
	oli
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