We are waiting for your answer. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Tormod Volden <debian.tor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yitz, > Both KDE and GNOME ship by default their own screensaver daemons > (kscreensaver and gnome-screensaver). I am most familiar with > gnome-screensaver so I will use it as the example, but I think > kscreensaver does the same. The gnome-screensaver package ships its > own desktop file which is active by default. It is not the "desktop > environment" which is activating it, it is the desktop file from the > screensaver package which makes it start. > > We offer the xscreensaver as a substitute, for those who do not like > gnome-screensaver for some reason. If they remove the > gnome-screensaver package and install xscreensaver instead, they > expect xscreensaver to be activated by default. This is also the case. > Otherwise it would be considered a security issue that a screensaver > package is not active after installation. > > Users of any other xdg-compliant desktop environment will also expect > that xscreensaver is starting if they install it. > > We expect those who install both packages, to have a special reason > for this, because a normal user on the other hand will just use > gnome-screensaver which comes with GNOME. The special users will have > to choose which one to use in their sessions. > > I don't know if you fall into any of those categories. Why do you > install the xscreensaver package? > > If you have an elegant solution which caters for all needs, I would be > very interested. I don't see why xscreensaver should be more defensive > than gnome-screensaver in the both-installed corner case. Maybe the > desktop environments (whatever function is sourcing the desktops) > should note that two screensavers are installed and only start one of > them? > > >
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