Re: [gdm-list] [PATCH] 64bit compilation and gnome-screensaver

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:37 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Rodrigo:
> 
> >>  Really, though, I'd prefer if people could
> >>specify the screensaver in the gdm.conf file rather than hardcoding
> >>the name of the program in the code.  The configure file could
> >>check to see if gnome-screensaver is on the system and set it to
> >>that.  If not, then it could check if xscreensaver is on the
> >>system and set it to that.  If neither, it could leave it blank.
> >>This would be more usable, I think.
> > 
> > the problem with that approach is that you might have xscreensaver only
> > installed in the system at configure time, then install
> > gnome-screensaver, and not be able to use it unless you recompile.
> 
> Why would recompilation be necessary?  If the location of the screensaver
> is specified in the gdm.conf file, then it would only be necessary to
> modify the gdm.conf file if you want to use a different screensaver
> even if you have installed a GDM binary on another machine.  Or am I
> missing something?
> 
right, the problem is the other GNOME modules that run the screensaver
are using the same technique as my patch (if g-s is installed, use it,
if not, use xscreensaver). So, if we want to use a setting in a file
(which looks good to me), we have to change all those modules to read
that setting from the same file as gdm.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>