[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 3578] option to not start xscreensaver when starting xfce4

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------- Comment #5 from bjt23 at cornell.edu  2008-02-08 22:59 UTC -------
God, Robby, what are we going to do with you ^_~.

I kinda think that screensaver handling in Xfce is just pretty poor in general.
 For people running GDM and gnome-screensaver (maybe for the switch user
functionality), it would be nice to have an easy way to make that work.

This is just further cause for a "preferred desktop apps" framework to
complement the preferred apps stuff in libexo.  So we could have options for WM
(xfwm4, compiz(-fusion), metacity, kwin), desktop/file management
(xfdesktop+Thunar, nautilus, ROX), panel (xfce4-panel, gnome-panel, pypanel),
screensaver (gnome-screensaver, xscreensaver, xlock only).  Ideally we could
ship with a bunch of .desktop files that define the avail applications, and
only show those that are actually installed (and allow the user/distros to
easily add other options).

This also needs cooperation from xfce4-session, and I'm not sure anyone besides
Benny would know the codebase enough to handle that without a lot of work.

Of course, I currently have about 4 unfinished new projects, 3 or 4 modules I
maintain (and am behind on bug fixes and enhancements for), so somebody else is
gonna have to step up here.

So, to make a long story... less long, maybe we should just accept the
$DISABLE_SCREENSAVER patch for now, and punt a good solution to 4.8...


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