Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:46 -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> 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?
> 

As mentioned already, screensaver-list at gnome.org is the list to talk to.
The only way to know if your ideas will be considered is to propose them
there.

Matthias