On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 03:57, Jens Knutson wrote:
under GNOME control. This is not to knock Jamie or his project,
they
just have different goals; it's quite unlikely that Jamie will want to
make the necessary changes to xscreensaver (like trimming the fat of
some of the "lame" or problematic screensavers, changing the
configuration GUI, etc) to make it the really great, user-oriented (as
opposed to geek-oriented) screensaver that GNOME needs.
Has anyone asked Jamie[1] about it? He is (was) a GNOME user the last
time I checked.
That said, the GNOME desktop-devel-list discussion was in relation to
gdmflexiserver and fast user switching. I forsee GNOME just writing some
form of "wrapper" rather than removing xscreensaver altogether.
It will impact GNOME negatively if they replace xscreensaver, imho.
Historical reasons among others...
[1] - Jamie Zawinski, author of xscreensaver
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