On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:25 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:04 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > If you do, it would probably be best to split the package and only ship > > a select few of the screensavers by default, similar to how Ubuntu does > > this; http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/xscreensaver-data > > This might not be necessary: the fdo menu spec allows us to specify > which screensavers are enabled by default. Although I don't know if > there is a way for the user to enable any that we have disabled; > currently I believe the enable/disabled status is reflected by > hiding/showing screensavers in g-s-preferences rather than by greying > them out or giving them a checkbox.
That sounds like a good idea. It looks like upstream is at least planning to add functionality to enable/disable screensavers from the preferences; http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316462 > My main concern here is really to prevent screensavers that have been > known to show controvertial content (webcollage, the RSS reader one, > etc.) from being enabled without the user's consent. Ideally we should > display some kind of "screensavers that display third party content may > contain unexpected porn and nazi propoganda and get you in trouble" > warning when these hacks are enabled, but this is really a discussion > for a separate bug. :) Another concern is stripping out screensavers that need some kind of configuration before being run, as this goes against the design of gnome-screensaver. There's also the question of translations of screensaver descriptions. The migrate script from gnome-screensaver doesn't seem to support this. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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