Re: xscreensaver capplet.

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome-db org>]

El d_ 23 Jul 2001 17:04:22 -0400, Jonathan Blandford escribi_
> Currently we seem to have three different screensaver capplets -- the
> old one in stable, Jamie's that ships with xscreensaver, and the new one
> in gnome-control-center.  There are a couple issues here that need
> sorting out, if possible.
> 
> 1) We want to have just one capplet with GNOME 2.  My inclination is to
>    use the one in gnome-control-center, though I'm a little
>    uncomfortable with the fact it depends on ETable.  It's sort of
>    unfortunate that a major component of GNOME depends on an unstable
>    library.  This needs resolving by GNOME 2.0.
> 
> 2) the --window-id option recently disappeared, meaning there is
>    currently no way to embed a preview of the screensaver.  I feel like
>    this is a really nice feature to have, though jamie claims it's
>    always been broken.  It would be nice to have this feature.  Jamie,
>    what can we do here?
> 

I think that this feature is very important (almos for the end user)

> 3) Jamie's had some objections to the original one -- mostly to do with
>    the fact that you could only pick one at a time.  The current one has
>    five modes, which is pretty nice.  (As a refresher -- the modes are:
>    No Screensaver, Blank Screen, One Screensaver at a time, Random (all
>    screensavers), and Random (select some screensavers).)  Jamie, do you
>    have other objections here?
> 
> 4) Currently, we need to keep the list of hacks that ship with the
>    control-center in sync with the hacks in xscreensaver.  It would be
>    really nice to consolidate these somewhere.
> 


The only solution I see here, is that we should parse the
XScreenSaver_ad.h file and generate our xml files with this information.
I think that we only need this file (re)generation when Jamie Zawinski
release a new XScreenSaver version.

It isn't a trivial hack, but I think that it's the best solution.


> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
> 
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