>From a personal email from the upstream author: Yes. That bug is a request to support the xscreensaver configuration mechanism. We don't want to support that for a variety of reasons.
I've opened bug 354805 [1] and put some thoughts on how one might implement configuration support in a sensible way that is consistent with KDE and can store settings in gconf. I'd accept patches for that. It really is a completely different thing than the xscreensaver config support. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354805 -- no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver https://launchpad.net/bugs/22007 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs