hi, Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2005, 00:35 +0100 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le mardi 22 mars 2005 Ã 23:47 +0100, Sven Arvidsson a Ãcrit : > > Package: xscreensaver > > Version: 4.21-1 > > Severity: wishlist
> I'm currently working on a Xft version of that dialog box, but these are
> quite important changes, and upstream disagrees with them. I'm against
> using Ubuntu's patches directly, as the result isn't configurable at all
> and it doesn't have the "new login" button.
i'm really happy to see that so many people like my little hack, but i'd
like to point out that its really only a hack and isnt planned to
survive the next release in ubuntu, its an interim solution for hoary
until a safe implementation for gnome is found, since thats the desired
way to go for us.
it seems Josselin had the same idea i had, since all i did was to pick a
themeing patch from Alan Swanson to make xpm themeing possible and to
change all drawing and font code to use the xft equivalent, so the lock
code stayed as it is and the possible security issues are kept at a
minimum.
ubuntu uses version 4.16, i'm not even sure it would apply to 4.21
without bigger changes, since i dont know what code changed between
these versions.
everything is hardcoded and not configurable but i'll send an additional
mail these days with th completed patch attached (its not completely
done yet and still has some rough edges), its probably a good base for
ideas for a new implementation, but i fully agree with Josselin that a
configurable variant and even a "new login" button would be better.
i for myself decided to wait for the gnome screensaver and not to put
more work into this hack then absolutely necessary for ubuntu hoary.
ciao
oli
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