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List:       fedora-desktop-list
Subject:    Re: Paring Down the Screensavers - RFC
From:       Nils Philippsen <nphilipp () redhat ! com>
Date:       2004-02-20 10:19:13
Message-ID: 1077272352.9928.19.camel () wombat ! tiptoe ! de
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On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 22:29, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Steven Garrity (stevelist@silverorange.com) said: 
> > There was some talk a while back on this list about trimming down the 
> > list of screensavers included in Fedora Core. By my count, there are 177 
> > screensavers included (let me know if I've got some installed from 
> > somewhere else or something, but I don't think so).
> > 
> > I've gone through the list and tried take a shot at identifying which 
> > screensavers should stay in Core and which should go.
> 
> xscreensaver - blank only, core
> xscreensaver-extras - everything else

I'd go for xscreensaver{,-3D}{,-extras} or xscreensaver{,-3D,-extras}.
But that's not the main obstacle, indeed it would be easy to
automatically sort them out...

The main obstacle I see with xscreensaver is its configuration through
one monolithic appdefaults file (well through Xresources which doesn't
exactly mandate this, but you get the idea). This makes "addons" to
xscreensaver a real drag if you want to do them as properly packaged
RPMs. This should IMO be handled through some /etc/X11/xscreensaver.d
directory or similar where subpackages/addons can just drop in the
configuration snippets for the contained screensaver hacks.

Another (probably much higher) obstacle would be to get this past jwz
;-).

Any ideas?

Nils
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