Re: [Cooker] Questions about xscreensaver

[Götz Waschk]

2005/6/5, Claudio Matsuoka <claudio@mandriva.com>:
> A few questions about xscreensaver:
> - Why are both xscreensaver and xlockmore required by gnome-panel?
>   Perhaps we could choose one only of them? (xscreensaver seems to
>   be the more actively maintained, and has IMHO more interesting
>   screensavers).

Hi,

xlockmore is used when you run GNOME as root, xscreensaver if you run as user.

> - Why was xjack removed from the package?

No idea, I guess because it's ugly.

> - Why the matrix-like screensavers were moved to plf? (and starwars were
>   not?)

Copyright issues. There was a discussion on the Cooker list about this problem.
 
> - The upstream method of packaging hacks seems to offer a much better
>   maintenance cost and prevents errors. Any reason not to use it? (A
>   modified version is used in the Conectiva Linux package and works
>   quite well).

What's the upstream method?

CU, Götz

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