Re: A patch to make gnome-control-center use xml-i18n-tools

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Sean Middleditch <elanthis users sourceforge net> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:46:15AM -0400, Bradford Hovinen wrote:
> > On 18 Jul 2001 13:50:19 +0200, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > I'm working on it, but I don't like this solution because we should
> > > update our xml files every time that XScreenSaver updates its
> > > XScreenSaver_ad.h file. I also don't like the fact that XSreenSaver
> > > don't use our widgets to ask your password, I think that this way we are
> > > confusing the GNOME user. It's possible to get those changes into the
> > > main xscreensaver module? (with, for example, a --enable-gnome switch to
> > > only get those changes at building time and let use the actual widgets
> > > by default, something like dia, that could use plain gtk or gnome).
> > 
> > I am certain JWZ will not accept such changes into XScreensaver. He has
> > stated as much in the past.
> > 
> > Ideally, the solution is to write a new daemon that does not have the
> > breakage that XScreensaver has. It is not easy to find a person to do
> > this, though, since we cannot afford to assign a full-time employee to
> > it.
> 
> Instead of starting from scratch, one could fork the codebase, no?  I'm
> not familiar with XScreenSaver (I don't even have it installed on my
> main workstation), so I don't know how feasible that might be.  But a
> fork of a codebase already in existance might be easier that writing a
> whole new daemon, depending on exactly what it is that is wrong with
> XScreenSaver.

KDE did this and quickly showed that they don't have the enthusiasm and
energy to maintain xscreensaver as well as Jamie.  Lets try to work with
him here.

Thanks,
-Jonathan