I'd be interested to know, what sort of changes are made to xscreensaver for Open/Solaris other than the GTK dialog? I noticed at least with 4.05 in Solaris 10 that it allows root unlock to be used with PAM (stock can only do it using shadow auth). Is there a list somewhere?
Thanks, William Yang ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Coopersmith To: Ken Mays Cc: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org ; desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Xscreensaver 5.06 & Compiz 0.7.6 Ken Mays wrote: > I was playing around with Xscreensaver 5.06 and see it works a bit better with the X extensions to rotate the screen. I'm requesting updates so other OpenSolaris desktop distros can start reviewing Compiz 0.7.6 and Xscreensaver 5.06 for general consumption... ~ Ken Mays If you're asking for Sun's X team to update Xscreensaver, then I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen right now. I spent some time a while ago working on it, and the complete rewrite of the PAM code in xscreensaver 5.02 is going to require several weeks of work to redesign/rewrite our PAM modifications and GTK lock dialog (the pain of being forked so far from upstream), and we've got a full list of higher priority things to get done for the 2008.11 release before anyone here is likely to have a few spare weeks to do that. Of course, that shouldn't stop any distro who wants a newer one from doing the work themselves - especially if they don't care about Sun Ray or accessibility support, and can just use the upstream lock dialog & PAM code. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/attachments/20080801/16107776/attachment.html>
