[ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio-screensaver

[Set Hallstrom]

On 2016-03-31 22:24, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016, at 08:17 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Whilst looking at something else I came across the
>> ubuntustudio-screensaver package. It has not been touched for a long
>> time, and is no longer seeded.
>>
>> Knowing that screensavers are not the "in thing" any more (most screens
>> just go blank these days), I decided to install it to see what it looked
>> like.
>>
>> It pulls in gnome-screensaver, but nothing else visible seems to happen
>> and there is no settings utility appearing in the menu.
>>
>> Running "gnome-screensaver --debug" prints some warning about no
>> .session being registered or something. Not wanting to spend any more
>> time on it, I thought I would ask here:
>> 1. Is there some setup step I am missing?
>> 2. Does the package need work, or the X-defaults need something set up,
>> to help any users installing it?
>> 3. Should we just remove it from the archive?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ross
>>
> 
> We should probably drop that package, as well as ubuntustudio-sounds.
> They are pretty much abandoned. Might as well do it now, before this
> release.
> 

This emails comes as strange to me; when i installed the dev
environment, i noticed a considerably higher amount of screen-savers
than in the LTS, much of which are pretty awesome!

Now i don't get me wrong, i'm in favor of dropping whatever is
superfluous and broken. But i for one would be sad not to have any
screen-saver at all, specifically a diaporama of my photo-library. :)


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Set Sakrecoer