If I downloaded xscreensaver and then applied these patches, would the end result be compilable and workable on Solaris 10?
Thanks, William Yang -------------------------------------------------- From: "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:36 PM To: "William Yang" <wyang at tjhsst.edu> Cc: "Ken Mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>; <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>; <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Xscreensaver 5.06 & Compiz 0.7.6 > The only list is the patches we apply to the sources: > > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-gate/XW_NV/open-src/app/xscreensaver/ > > Of course, that's the OpenSolaris/Solaris Nevada xscreensaver 5.01 > patches, > which are based on what we did for xscreensaver 4.05 in Solaris 9 & 10, > but > updated a bit. > > -alan- > > William Yang wrote: >> 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 <mailto:Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> >> *To:* Ken Mays <mailto:maybird1776 at yahoo.com> >> *Cc:* xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org> ; >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto:alan.coopersmith at sun.com> >> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > >
