[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 4448] Xflock4 should not just assume xlock is installed

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4448





--- Comment #8 from Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>  2008-10-05 15:13:03 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > And fallback to xlockmore (which has nothing to do with xorg, btw).
> 
> If it's available!  (That was my whole point, not everyone has it)  Xflock4
> should be prepared for when no screensaver/lock tool is available and show an
> error appropriately.

I'd say, if $user don't have any locking stuff, we don't give a shit. It'll
fail, but eh, that's normal.

(In reply to comment #7)
> Let's not exaggerate.  Xmessage is very ugly.  The user can always execute it
> on commandline and look at stderr. 
> If there is a better way to show a gtk error in Xfce (without zenity) that
> would be better though, but that would probably mean a rewrite of xflock4 in C.
>  Don't think that's worth it.

If warning $user, you should take care of really warning him. Either you do it
completely or you don't to it at all.

My 2 cents.

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