Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le jeudi 29 décembre 2005 à 22:57 +0100, Hilko Bengen a écrit : >> * Users do not generally expect a screen saver to cause network >> traffic. Even in 2005 there are still Debian users whose network >> connectivity is non-broadband and/or metered by volume or time spent >> online for whom xscreensaver's default behavior may cause >> "interesting" surprises. Just think of laptops with GSM or UMTS >> modems for a non-third-world example... > > xscreensaver is retrieving the RSS feed, which isn't a really big > file,
No matter how small the request, in a dial-up situation this means that unnecessary and potentially costly traffic is generated. > and it is retrieving it only once for each hack using > xscreensaver-text. Are you sure about that? If you select the output of fortune to be used, fortune is run again and again. > And it's not as if it couldn't be easily deactivated. If a user absolutely wants his screenblanker to be a RSS reader, he can just as easily turn that functionality on. Just use a sane default which doesn't need to generate network traffic just to draw nice graphics on the screen. > Anyway, I wouldn't call planet.debian.org "untrusted content". This > site can only receive contributions from Debian developers. planet.d.o. has no technical measures that prevent libel, slander, offensive language etc. from being aggregated, let alone illegal content. As such, I can't trust the content aggregated by planet.d.o.. What triggered my comment on this bug report was my boss's (negative) astonishment about the notion that a screenblanker printed a blog entry about the 22C3 conference to the screen of a freshly installed workstation. While nobody got into trouble here, I know of a few companies that use Debian in workstation configurations where something like this _would_ have led to negative consequences. (If you say that something with the culture is fundamentally wrong in those firms, I'll totally agree with you, but changing the default configuration of xscreensaver would be much easier than attempting to change some PHB's attitude.) Cheers, -Hilko
