Re: Xscreensaver problem with contol center

[jgotts linuxsavvy com]

In message <20001207022137 A11233 flux>, Ian Peters writes:

>alternative configuration (Jamie Zawinski doesn't believe that users
>should see a small version of the screensaver, so he maintains his
>own).

Are you sure about this?  It sounds wrong.

I think the reason he implemented -crapplet is that gnomecc uses a really
bizarre scheme to define modes, e.g.

/usr/share/control-center/.data/Morph3d.desktop

.data seems pretty bizarre to me.  Also, when Jamie adds new modes to
xscreensaver they don't automatically show up in gnomecc.  I'm not strictly a
complainer, I've added a few .data files myself.

The maintainer of gnomecc is hard at work on a new screensaver applet which
fixes these limitations.  For now, though, -crapplet isn't bad at all, at least
for the moment.

John

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