Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Miles Lane]

On 2/17/06, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/06, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree that neither of the reasons they list are very good. Having
> > one extra button to open a second dialogue hardly clutters the UI, and
> > makes it no harder for the user. To let system admins lock down
> > settings, they should simply provide a "Don't show or let users open
> > advanced controls." key.
>
> UI issues aside..you'd have to store the per-user configs somewhere...
> that means making room in GConf for per-xscreensaver-hack
> configuration keys. Which means creating schema for each and every
> xscreensaver-hack which could take per-user configs as well as keys
> which can be applied across all screensaver-hacks on a per-user basis.
> So that it could be locked down at a site policy level.

So, do you know who to contact to make this happen?  Do you think this
would be considered?  Who would have to be convinced?

Miles