Ubuntu and screen savers.... :-/

[Thom May]

* Vincent Trouilliez (vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr) wrote :
> It's only today that I have the opportunity to look at the screensaver
> dialog in Ubuntu. 
> There are, I still can't believe it, 204 screen savers listed. 
> I don't think this complies with Ubuntu and Gnome's philosophy of
> offering a limited but useful set of choices.
> 
Xscreensaver is something of a special case - we went through and chose a
sensible -and shiney- selection before release, so it does have sensible
defaults.
Many people will say you can't have too many screensavers, so I'm not sure
that everyone would agree with you when you ask for a limited collection. 
Splitting them out in a seperate might work, though.

> 2) Make it easy to DELETE a screen saver. Just put a button in the
> screen saver dialog, that will delete cleanly the screen saver : delete
> all it's files, in all directories, and update the index file so that
> they don't appear in the list anymore eventhough they have been deleted.

I don't understand why you'd delete them - maybe a "Don't show me this
screensaver ever again" option is more what you're looking for? 

Cheers,
-Thom