Bug 6113 – xscreensaver should be added to gnome-base/gnome

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arun Thomas (RETIRED) 2002-08-06 15:21:59 UTC]

Gnome2 complains if xscreensaver is not installed. It should probably be
included in gnome-base/gnome. The user would probably expect it in a reasonable
gnome2 installation.

Arun

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-08-06 16:50:08 UTC]

complains how ?

[Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-08-06 17:55:58 UTC]

Actually, having it as a run-time dependency would work, but a user -must- not
have it, and to get a friendly warning that 
:xscreensaver was not found on your system, screensaver will be disabled for
this session

is far better than forcing something down a users throat. 

[Comment 3 Arun Thomas (RETIRED) 2002-08-06 19:24:46 UTC]

A dialog box pops up when gnome starts. It says that there was an error starting
xscreensaver and that xscreensaver will not function this session. 

I agree with Spider that we probably shouldn't force this down users throats;
however, gnome-games is included in the gnome package. This package isn't
strictly necessary either. I would argue that xscreensaver is as useful or more
so than gnome-games. This is just my opinion though. I will defer to you
guys/gals who know much more about this than I.

[Comment 4 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-08-27 13:12:16 UTC]

well.. gnome-games might not be useful, but it is part of the gnome experience
;) (or the desktop package at least) 


I'll leave it "as is" for now

[Comment 5 Arun Thomas (RETIRED) 2002-08-27 13:18:46 UTC]

fair enough.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2003-03-19 08:19:20 UTC]

*** Bug 17779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***