On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Set Hallstrom wrote: > On 2016-03-31 22:24, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016, at 08:17 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Whilst looking at something else I came across the > >> ubuntustudio-screensaver package. It has not been touched for a long > >> time, and is no longer seeded. > >> > >> Knowing that screensavers are not the "in thing" any more (most screens > >> just go blank these days), I decided to install it to see what it looked > >> like. > >> > >> It pulls in gnome-screensaver, but nothing else visible seems to happen > >> and there is no settings utility appearing in the menu. > >> > >> Running "gnome-screensaver --debug" prints some warning about no > >> .session being registered or something. Not wanting to spend any more > >> time on it, I thought I would ask here: > >> 1. Is there some setup step I am missing? > >> 2. Does the package need work, or the X-defaults need something set up, > >> to help any users installing it? > >> 3. Should we just remove it from the archive? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Ross > >> > > > > We should probably drop that package, as well as ubuntustudio-sounds. > > They are pretty much abandoned. Might as well do it now, before this > > release. > > > > This emails comes as strange to me; when i installed the dev > environment, i noticed a considerably higher amount of screen-savers > than in the LTS, much of which are pretty awesome! > > Now i don't get me wrong, i'm in favor of dropping whatever is > superfluous and broken. But i for one would be sad not to have any > screen-saver at all, specifically a diaporama of my photo-library. :) > >
We aren't seeding ubuntustudio-screensaver, which means it's not installed in Ubuntu Studio. I haven't looked at the package at all, but I'm pretty sure it's one screensaver with some form of Ubuntu Studio motive. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
