I don't want to start yet another discussion about profanity or obscenity here.
When I learned this afternoon that hacks (i.e. FlipText) which are enabled in a default installation and eventually get run because random mode is selected as default, I was quite upset for two reasons: * Users do not generally expect a screen saver to cause network traffic. Even in 2005 there are still Debian users whose network connectivity is non-broadband and/or metered by volume or time spent online for whom xscreensaver's default behavior may cause "interesting" surprises. Just think of laptops with GSM or UMTS modems for a non-third-world example... * I haven't looked at the mechanisms used by xscreensaver-text to fetch content from URLs at all, but the security implications of a potential error in the code that retreives untrusted content from the net don't exactly cause a warm, fuzzy feeling. Please consider changing the default behavior as follows: 1. Provide a short file /usr/share/doc/xscreensaver/README.textmode in which contains a concise description on the available options. 2. Change the app-defaults files so that either this file (*textMode: text?) or maybe just a pointer to instructions (*textMode: string?) is displayed per default. Alternatively, modify xscreensaver-text to provide a more helpful message if it can't find the binary (fortune per default) it is supposed to call. If you want me to provide a tested patch against the package in sid, just drop me a line. Thanks for listening. Cheers, -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
