Bug 748126

Summary:	xfce-extra/xfce4-screensaver: add USE flag to pull in xscreensaver screensavers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	XFCE Team <xfce>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Maciej S. Szmigiero 2020-10-12 22:57:08 UTC

By itself xfce-extra/xfce4-screensaver only has 4 screensavers, the rest should be provided by x11-misc/xscreensaver.

For xfce-extra/xfce4-screensaver to see these a per-screensaver .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/screensavers is needed.

The format of the required files is documented here:
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/faq#where_are_all_the_screensavers
These can be easily auto-generated, usually is just the path to the screensaver (or "hack" in xscreensaver terminology) followed by the "-root" command line argument.

Remaining command line arguments are automatically read from screensaver's XML description file that's already part of the x11-misc/xscreensaver package.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2020-10-13 00:47:33 UTC

Sounds more like an optfeature thing?

Comment 2 Maciej S. Szmigiero 2020-10-13 00:55:27 UTC

It could be an optfeature, however then it wouldn't be clear which package should own /usr/share/applications/screensavers/*.desktop files.

Making it an USE flag instead has an additional benefit of making the installed x11-misc/xscreensaver package automatically eligible for depclean if xfce-extra/xfce4-screensaver is removed.