Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Lionel Le Folgoc <[email protected]>wrote: <snip>
> > By the way, Cody, did you talk with cjwatson about your "gdm-legacy" > package? Afaik, autologin config has changed before 2.20 and 2.26, so > the option in ubiquity should be fixed/hidden for Xubuntu. Mario already mentioned this to me. I'll patch ubiquity to work correctly. <snip> > Regarding the screensaver, gnome-screensaver now depends on > gnome-session, > > and if this can not be fixed, it should be dropped ASAP. And I think that > it > > would be more profitable to try to make xscreensaver's dialog better > (that > > is to say fix system theming + a11y issues) than to keep > gnome-screensaver, > > because : > > - the xscreensaver author, of which g-screensaver is a fork, claims that > > g-screensaver may not be secure > > - xscreensaver is maintained by someone who is interested in a stable, > > secure and cross-platform screensaver, while g-screensaver is maintained > by > > developers who primarily address the needs of the GNOME users, sometimes > > regardless of the needs of other users of particular software. While I > can > > perfectly understand that, it means future releases of gnome software are > > always less reliable than from other authors (this reminds me of a > blogpost > > that i unfortunately lost, from a GNOME developer stating that GNOME > needs > > to learn to take the habit to say when they do changes that can have bad > > consequences for their users, which they currently don't and which you > learn > > of once things are there). > > +1. Imho, we are going to discover more unexpected issues after the release > because of the "let's-make-everything-rely-on-gnome-session" idea anyway… As I've already mentioned, gnome-screensaver uses gnome-session to determine when the session is idle. We can either patch gnome-screensaver to use the old x11 watcher if the gnome-session dbus interface isn't available or we could even patch xfce4-power-manager to take care of starting the screensaver since it monitors idleness not using gnome-session already. If neither options turn out to be viable for whatever reason, we'll have no choice but to move to xscreensaver. Cheers, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Systems Release Engineer Foundations Team Custom Engineering Solutions Group Canonical OEM Services Phone: +1-781-850-2087 Cell: +1-506-471-8402 Email: [email protected]
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