Re: [Usability] gnome-screensaver configuration (or lack therof)

[Martin Ejdestig <marejde gmail com>]

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 13:23 -0700, Scott wrote:
> A bug was filed over a year ago (
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654 ).  The author of
> gnome-screensaver responded with:
> 
>         "I don't have any plans to support this.  My view is that any
> screensaver theme that requires configuration is inherently broken."
> 
> BROKEN? So then most all screensavers on all operating systems going
> back 20 years have been "broken".  
> 
> The gnome-screensaver author, in h is infinite wisdom figured this out
> and "fixed it" in GNOME.

Have you even read all of what the GNOME Screensaver maintainer has to
say in bug report?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654#c48

I'll paste it in here so you don't even have to click the link.

"I am not denying that some people may want to change the defaults and
settings.  I am saying that simply adding configurability like
xscreensaver has is not a good solution and I've listed some reasons in
the FAQ.  Please notice that the original reporter asked for the
"ability to configure individual screensavers like Xscreensaver".  That
simply won't work. We need a new way and that is going to take some
actual work."

And if you want to persuade a maintainer that he is wrong you better
bring some good rationale to the table. Ranting doesn't help. Havoc
Pennington had some interesting thoughts about this that he has written
down at:

http://ometer.com/features.html

Hope it helps...


Martin
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