Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Don Springall]

>From: "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver
>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:22:38 -0500
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>On 2/17/06, Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Personally, I think the Gnome developers' know-it-all attitude is
> > stupid and offensive.  Dang it!  They take their bloody "present no
> > options to the users" too far!  Idiots!
>
I would not label the Gnome developers as idiots as Linus Torvalds did over 
the gnome print issue but I do find it frustrating at times that their "ease 
of use" and it "just works" ideas to be in conflict with a lack of user 
control.

For example I liked playing with the xmatrix controls just to see what they 
did. Even if that was a bad idea because xmatrix seems to chew up a lot of 
cpu and battery life and at one time did nasty things to memory.

I usually just leave a blank screen as a screensaver most of the time to 
save battery but it is fun to play sometimes while you are waiting for a 
download to finish. I guess thats why there will probally never be just one 
desktop. Some like control, some like no controls. Luckily we have lots of 
choices. Lets start a flame war over something more interesting. How about 
we start one on ndiswrapper. Boy we should nuke those 8k stack options and 
tell windows driver fanboys to go jump in a lake. 4k stacks are so much 
better for performance.
There, I feel much better now !