Kyle McDonald wrote:
> a) Xscreensaver. The dependency on GTK might be solved similiar to
> DBUS and HAL with packaging. It's my suggestion though that if the
> dependencies for XscreenSaver were considered harder, then a better
> solution might have been found for integrating the Accessibility
> technology into it. For instance it could have been coded to dynamically
> load (and call into) the accessibility libs only if they were present.
>
> This would have allowed it to be installed and function with out
> any GNOME packages, and the the dependencies they bring, and yet would
> have enable that functionality if they were present.
The missing link here is deciding it's worthwhile to do that work.
When xscreensaver was added to Solaris during one of the Solaris 9
update releases it was explicitly to provide a screensaver for the
GNOME 2.0 desktop. Making it depend on GTK+ was a goal of that
work - making it installable without any GNOME libraries was not,
and is still not a goal today for those at Sun paid to do this work.
If a community member felt that this was so worthwhile to put in the
work themselves, the code is open, and we take contributions, but Sun
has no reason to spend its resources doing it ourselves.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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