Le 23/05/16 à 20:11, Tormod Volden a écrit :
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:40:25 +0200 Tormod Volden
wrote:
When running GNOME Shell and xscreensaver modules such as
xscreensaver-data-
extra and others are added to xscreensaver, the GNOME Application Menu
list
gets cluttered up with useless icons for each of the many Display Modes
that
are installed.
I think this will be fixed now by not displaying the hacks in GNOME
but only in MATE.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xscreensaver.git/commit/?id=47dfa5456abac1773b18a9607a59bdf58ca3fc14
Are you sure this is the correct fix?
Well, it was /a/ correct /fix/ for the problem that, functionally,
Gnome was renamed to Mate, and something else got the name Gnome.
That's called GNOME 3, MATE is the fork here you know...
However, whether it is the final /solution/, and for the issue at hand
in this bug report, I am not sure.
MATE already has a screensaver (mate-screensaver).
OTHO, xfce seems to rely on xscreensaver, so shoudn't it "OnlyShowIn=XFCE;"
instead?
These desktop files have nothing to do with having or using or relying
on xscreensaver. xscreensaver does not use them at all. IIRC they got
introduced because the xscreensaver hacks could then be used by e.g.
gnome-screensaver. BTW, is mate-screensaver what was gnome-screensaver
before?
OK, I see
Yes mate-screensaver is using the same codebase as gnome-screensaver
Looking at it, it seems that they are also installing .desktop files at
the same place, with more or less the same keys, so I guess it's OK for MATE
Furthermore, these hacks are freestanding applications that can run on
their own and display something funny or beautiful on the screen. It
therefore would make sense that they have desktop files. The desktop
files have a "Screensaver" category, so it is up the fancy file/menu
manager to display them or not, or show them in a separate category.
So this "cluttering up" issue is really a defect in the affected
desktop environment.
Even if they are properly categorized, they have no icons, this make the
entries quite ugly IMHO
As I said xscreensaver does not use them, so for xscreensaver itself
we could stop shipping them altogether. But I think it is the choice
of the users, if they choose to install these hacks, it is in
principle a plus that they can browse them in some sort of file/app
view without having to go to the command line or look at the binaries
in /usr/lib/xscreensaver.
Like I said, it seems that mate-screensaver is also installing .desktop
files at the same location, so indeed it might make sense to keep them
there.
Cheers,
Laurent Bigonville
