Re: gnome-screensaver in CVS

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Hi Mike,

Mike Hearn wrote:
> Will there be a random screensaver mode? I quite liked that feature of
> the current xscreensaver.

It is an interesting problem.  The daemon supports it.  You can turn it 
on via gconf for now.  However, I'm not really convinced it is necessary 
to expose this in the capplet.  I think the option really says more 
about the quality of most screensaver themes than it does to solve any 
real world problems.  We have all become used to it being there.

Here's another way I've thought about it.  As far as I know, we don't 
offer an option to randomize the desktop backgrounds while we are 
sitting at the screen.  So, why do we care if the screensaver theme 
cycles randomly while we aren't?

I'm not set against it.  I would just like to have a good reason for it.

Also, including the option implies that the screensaver theme list 
should be long.  Which may not be a good thing.

Jon