On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > I would be nice if xscreensaver-properties.desktop was not displayed by > default in GNOME (and probably others).
It seems there are many GNOME users who still want to use xscreensaver. They expect to find the preference panel if they have installed this package. For single-user systems there is no problem. The GNOME purist can just remove the xscreensaver package. For multi-user, multi-DE systems I think the administrator can just customize the desktop file as wanted, or let the users disable it themselves if they want. See also https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xscreensaver.git/commit/?id=ca4381e9a0fda1779f84386236155a56e289826d > > GNOME is providing its owned screensaver implementation and in a near Users should have the freedom to choose an alternative even if GNOME offers its own screensaver, IMO. > future we are planning to switch to wayland, that would mean that > xscreensaver will not work anyway. Why will it not work? Will X applications not work in general? In this case are you going to manually add Noshow=Gnome to all these applications, or is some smarter mechanism planned? Regards, Tormod
