Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[David D. Hagood]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 2/16/06, David D. Hagood <wowbagger at sktc.net> wrote:

> I am not part of the gnome team.. I am a user. And at no point did i
> call you stupid. Being uninformed isn't being stupid. Not recognizing
> long-term benefits which you personally aren't going to make use of
> isn't being stupid.

Quoting your original response:
> You might not understand, in the short-term, the long-term benefits to 

Now, had you said something along the lines of "Well, have you looked at 
the homepage for gnome-screensaver (url)? There are some good future 
directions they want to go in" I would not have reacted at I did. 
However, your response was one of "You don't agree, so you must not 
understand." Perhaps I do understand, but I think they are missing some 
points?

Nor did I ever say you were a member of the Gnome devel team - rather, I 
pointed out the attitude that has become prevalent in the Gnome 
universe, as quoted in several commentaries online, that if somebody 
dares to criticize the direction Gnome is going in to imply the person 
so questioning is somehow not as clueful as the Gnome developers.

> I'm pointing out that there are long term benefits which you may not
> recognize as being important.

And again, you start from the assumption that the Gnome way is right, 
and if I don't agree I must be the one who is wrong. Perhaps these 
"long-term benefits" are NOT benefits?

Mind you, I think there ARE good ideas there. However, I am just 
pointing out why I responded to your response as I did - you started off 
with an assumption that you were not questioning. In my 20 years of 
designing software, one thing I've learned is to ALWAYS question your 
assumptions. It ain't what we don't know, it's what we know that's 
wrong, as Pogo said.

> just because it has gnome in the name means its gnome specific? Did

Because that is what having Gnome in the name means.

> Would you feel better if it were named freedesktop.org-screensaver?
> 
Perhaps not such a long name, but yes, one that is more neutral than 
GnomeScreensaver. How about xscreensaver-ng?