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Hi Yves-Alexis On 2018/11/21 16:23, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > So: what are the pros and cons of xfce4-screensaver? I have no idea wh y there > is yet another screensaver rewrite/fork upstream, but it's done. That being > said that doesn't mean we need to introduce it in Debian. This is essentially a fork of mate-screensaver (which was a fork of the original gnome-screensaver) but without all the mate dependencies. It has better integration with xfce than xscreensaver, especially in terms of appearance and its theming. I would not pit it directly against light-locker since they are somewhat different tools. light-locker is a screen lock utility that integrates with lightdm, where xfce4-screensaver also locks your screen but displays screensavers while doing so. xfce4-screensaver is also still in an early phase, and I don't think it would be wise to replace light-locker with xfce4-screensaver any time so on. Having said that, I do intend to use it, and have users who want to use it, and having it in Debian is a lot better than users having to get it from some random PPA. I can't think of a reason why it would be inappropriate to have this in Debian at all. > Why fixing light-locker is not possible? What assurance do we have the xfce4- > screensaver won't be ditched for something else in a few months/year? I don't think that such an assurance exists for any software. IMHO the amount of login managers, screensavers, etc is already a mess and I actually hope that we'll be able to ditch some of the existing implementations in the future for something that makes more sense (no chance of that happening for buster though). - -Jonathan - -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <jcc> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEExyA8CpIGcL+U8AuxsB0acqyNyaEFAlv1cjgACgkQsB0acqyN yaG5zQ/8DhadE69Q0zg5vthx14APrBmw2UR29W6qmHogl8i4wCHPkdMh3A4pdco4 mnLd5vNhn9EMD85+F4amYToR1SJ7/MK+mTDMaET/QS5Oqd+U/Pw0qzzkifoxBBsw qKtvoBPZaNms6BPZID36rMRAfIN8fS51kGHFqHIFLMuunI0z9cdLW8TjjB7HhqYp s6IdSEmqcNed+JsAcHCgX7XWm+ybkSc/w613V+3cgn2O9N/DpnSGGlfPpfbKlPUz hRHSHtchUPDU5kJpD3uDvLxT4m7pONn71FgYZPGUEvZ6wpvFKV+rI/w5Kpzp7LMT /dPtP3L7PjH6SGZPmG5cwrQAjqYUqe4wFAabnGwmYkxgZ55/iZQj9pEe9eCs3Hu+ zpigKrS4oaKldCxosmD3AU5IWyQwqRDJmKws1yIPIu9h1LZlK+4oiHejHREGy2Kl 7+VezxdTYTq7ssj8BVMK97kAX3wwDBCVwyF/Hn4GXhfsuGecuB9K927w39C9Edua do98sQR7qZ3xKwkaQwCeQyLPGKSpcNEvBNTFVEIaVz5UWyc5VAHCuxB3t668Rs60 wi0owpouiq7x2Do/cd8G/R4qmGOMlPEJ/LgAkrFek6VjgcfOEqz0pefBz46h50qY VjXXRQhj4LfuJ6m2m/wdffDcPn4nUlbcrK1m3PA3SpcD31reOPM= =cIXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
