Re: GNOME Screen savers????

[John Gluck <john gluck sympatico ca>]

The version numbers of distributions are useless to compare between distributers.

A Red Hat 7.0 has no relation whatever to a SUSE 7.0 or a Slackware 7.0.
What really counts is the versions of the kernel, libraries and various
applications.
It is a common misconception that a Slackware version 7.0 will be somehow older
or inferior to a Red Hat say 7.1

Because of this msconception, many distriuters decided to try and make their
version numbers more like others. That is in many cases they look for the highest
number in current use and make their latest greatest some higher number.

What you should be looking at are the versions on the Gnome apps and window
manager (they're probably something like 1.2.X or 0.3.0 or whatever). Then try to
get a higher version that reports the problem as fixed.

John


Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:43:00PM -0500 or thereabouts, Robert Krueger wrote:
> [Screensavers won't work. Any. At all]
> > I don't have an answer for you, but I want you to know you're not alone.
> > It's a 7.0 problem.
>
> This doesn't narrow it down too far :) RH, SuSE and Mandrake have
> all reached or passed 7.0 by now... Which is it?
>
> > I installed all the bugfix updates, and it still won't
> > work. I'll also be looking for the answer for this one.
>
> For what it's worth, I recall Slackware (7.1?) users complaining that one
> of the two options I see on RH 7.0 or Debian woody in the control-center
> capplet was simply not there. It was either "No saver" or "Random". I don't
> recall which.
>
> Telsa
>
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