Re: gnome-screensaver 0.0.2

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mån 2005-04-04 klockan 21:27 +0100 skrev Bastien Nocera:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 14:34 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Thank you to those of you who pointed out Jamie Zawinski's article on 
> > the use of toolkits in lock dialogs 
> > <http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html>.  The timing of that 
> > article was uncanny.
> > 
> > This new version splits out the lock dialog to run as a subprocess, adds 
> > user switching via GDM, and removes the GTK+ dependency from all but the 
> > separate lock dialog.  It still depends on a fairly small amount of GDK.
> > 
> > http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/~mccannwj/GNOME/gnome-screensaver-0.0.2.tar.gz
> > 
> > Does anyone think this is interesting enough to import into CVS or worth 
> > continuing?
> 
> I was wondering, what's the current state of this tool?
> I tried it out quickly, and the screenies[1] rock :)
> 
> What's the TODO list, and will you push it to GNOME CVS?

Yes please; GNOME desperately needs a localizable/translateable screen
locking dialog, and it needs to be in GNOME CVS in order for GNOME
translators to be able to work on it.

Jon, is there anything we can do to help you import it?


Christian