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Disclaimer: I really, really don't like gnome-screensaver right now.
Daniel Holbach wrote:
* gnome-screensaver is tightly integrated with
gnome-power-manager, which enables us to do stuff like locking
after opening the lid again.
For me, locking after suspend or lid close works just fine with plain
acpi-support and xscreensaver, but only occasionally with
gnome-screensaver (and yesterday at least it was totally broken again).
* gnome-screensaver uses dbus and can therefore receive messages
from video players and other goodness.
I've never had any problems with video players and xscreensaver, but
plenty with gnome-screensaver. And the latter doesn't even try (as far
as I can tell) to be backward compatible with xscreensaver.
* gnome-screensaver is the first attempt to integrate the
screensaver more directly into the desktop.
That's exactly how I feel. It's an interresting attempt. However, I
don't think that this attempt should merit default installation status
in Ubuntu just because it's called gnome-something.
I'm sure the gnome-screensaver maintainer could add even more facts to
the list. In contrast to the amount of good things the screensaver
brings, the (at least in my eyes) unlikely use case of "configure my
screensavers" is not that important.
I agree that the screensaver-configurability is a minor issue. But the
upstream maintainers' attitude (for gnome-screensaver and
gnome-power-manager) is not (again IMHO, of course). They seem to answer
most every bugreport with a "f*ck you, luser, we know better than you".
/dan
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