On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Lionel Le Folgoc <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi folks, > > Since karmic, gnome-screensaver heavily relies on gnome-session (for > example to get the inactivity time). Therefore, it won't automatically > activate on Xfce. Xubuntu 9.10 has been released with this bug [1]; I > would like to avoid releasing lucid with the same broken feature. > > Here are some possible alternatives: > (1) patch gnome-screensaver to restore the old behavior; > (2) switch to xscreensaver by default; > (3) develop another Xfce-oriented screensaver; > (4) do nothing. > > IMHO, (1) isn't going to happen: upstream won't change it back, I don't > have time to patch gnome-screensaver nor to waste time to try to > convince some people of the desktop team to apply it (but if you have, > please step up)… > > (3) looks sexy, but is a bit unwise wrt to security matters. > Screensavers are usually used to lock screens, so are sensitive pieces > of software. I'm not sure it'll be ready (and secure enough) for lucid… > > (2) xscreensaver isn't really pretty, but works fine. At the moment, I > don't know if it can be manually customized by the artwork team, any > hints? (there is already [2] to track this) > > (4) isn't really an option. If nothing has been achieved or no decision > has been made before the UserInterfaceFreeze (March 4th, one week before > the first beta), I think I'll set xscreensaver by default (2), because > we can't release lucid as broken as karmic. > > > These are some quick thoughts. If you think I've missed an obvious > alternative, have better ideas or have already started to work on > something, feel free to react. > > > Cheers, > Lionel > > > [1] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-meta/+bug/493573> > [2] > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-artwork/+bug/361678> > > -- > #2 sounds good to me. The dialog apparently can be themed to some extent [3]. Not sure if this requires another package and, if so, whether that would be doable. The loss in accessibility is a shame, but the only alternative to that is including both gnome-screensaver (with the risks mentioned in [3]) and gnome-session. I don't think that's really an option - hopefully it's not too big of a hassle for people with disabilities to install them manually. [3] http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html -- Vincent
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