Clock screensaver?

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:18:00 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:

>> You can probably alter GLText to display the current time. I still don't
>> understand why gnome-screensaver doesn't show any options from the
>> xml-configfiles.
> 
> simply because nobody wrote any code to do that yet, gnome-screensaver
> upstream refuses to have such a feature at all. i'm not opposed to add
> it if someone wants to take up the work and send sane patches against
> the ubuntu package ;)

IIRC Ubuntu 5.10 still had the options. It might've used xscreensaver
then. In that case, why did Ubuntu replace it with gnome-screensaver?
What are the advantages of gnome-screensaver at this point?
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