Chad Bernier wrote: > I liked the app solution. I checked it out when I was using Ubuntu. I don't > have a linux right now, and I am not sure which I will pick when I put it on > again. I don't think this is an issue though. There are more important > things to work on. Screen savers haven't been necessary for years, and they > are often annoying. Either you set it to a really long timeout, or they pop > up in the middle of a TV show. I want the screen either on, or off. Save > some electricity and let your monitor go blank, sleep, or off. If you like a > certain screen saver that much, you can install the stuff needed to make it > work right. Linux is all about messing with things anyways. > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Irios <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why is it that we *have* to be stuck with the suckiest screensaver selector >> of any platform? We've got some of the coolest screensavers, but some are >> really very bad; however, there's no way to make a selection, and all users >> are stuck with choosing just one, or letting any one pop up at random. All >> because a square headed upstream maintainer has determined It Is Bad for >> Us. >> >> Who cares about diverging from Gnome upstream in this? Don't we diverge >> from >> upstream with the notifier, for example, which is far more important? Let's >> kick the screen saver selector in the butt! Then we may push it upstream, >> and everything will be dandy. >> >> -- >> no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22007 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> >
I wonder if a solution would be thus: Leave the screensaver config program alone, but create an additional program that edits a particular .desktop file. A user simply sets their screensaver to this special one, and uses this hypothetical tool to configure the screensaver as they actually like. gnome-screensaver need not know of this at all. -- no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22007 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
