Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:46 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:44 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:53 +0300, regatta wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > I know many people will not like me :) , but this just a question
> > > > please don�t hate me :)
> > > > 
> > > > is there any plan to drop xscreensaver or at less do a heavy change on
> > > > it (the ugly lock login didn�t change since I think gnome 2 or even
> > > > before and always you have to reboot your machine if you lock the
> > > > screen and your keyboard layout is not English when you lock the
> > > > screen because you can�t change the language back to English to enter
> > > > your password !!)
> > > 
> > > Someone needs to write a secure replacement.  Locking should be handled
> > > by GDM IMO.
> > 
> > There's already a replacement, and it's called gnome-screensaver, and is
> > in GNOME CVS right now.
> 
> Some people had some problems with it becoming a replacement.  Not sure
> what they were and I haven't investigated it myself.  Has it been vetted
> yet for security issues?  The biggest problem with xscreensaver type
> locking is that if xscreensaver crashes your session is unlocked.  This
> is why the author didn't want to link against external libraries if it
> could be avoided (and why we get ugly dialog).  Replacing it with
> something else doesn't really solve any problems other than making it
> look better.  I think we need to get GDM to start doing the locking.
> That way if it crashes the session exits.  If we do that then we can use
> anything for a screensaver app.

Please read the original thread, all of this has already been discussed:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/24408

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
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