Ubuntu and screen savers.... :-/

[Nano]

Vincent Trouilliez 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.
> 
> With so moany different screensavers, I didn't really had choice,
> because I just could bother trying all of them nor did I have the time
> to do so, especially for something like a screensaver.
> 
> So, seeing as I couldn't possibly try them all, I just clicked on one
> of
> them at random. BAD LUCK !!! I happened to click on "spheremonics",
> and
> this hung my computer ! I rebooted the machine, opened the
> screenssaver
> dialog again, so as to choise a different saver, but the dialog
> freezes
> the machine long before I have time to do anything !
> 
> So I searched in  /usr and found 3 files related to that saver. I
> deleled the binary, which allowed me to restart gnome's dialog and
> select another screen saver, but there are still 2 other files in two
> different directories that needs deleting. Plus, Gnomle STILL lists
> that
> screen saver, albeit "shaded", not available. 
> 
> So two things that really needs sorting for Hoary/Gnome 2.10 :
> 
> 1) Ubuntu should ship only a limited number of screensavers, a
> manageable number, say 20 max. We can always put the others in an
> optional package in Synpatic, for example.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Please do that, can't be that complicated can it... :-/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vince
> 
> 
> 
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True, all you need is the xMatrix one... or you can take the blue
pill...


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