[8418] in SIPB bug reports
Re: SIPB xscreensaver name change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z Maze)
Wed Mar 5 22:07:23 2003
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:06:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200303052037.PAA10742@equal-rites.mit.edu> (Greg Hudson's
message of "Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:37:04 -0500")
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> One of the broader local modifications we made to the GNOME 1.4
> software was changing several packages to run "xss" instead of
> "xscreensaver". We do not plan to make the same change in GNOME 2.2.
> This means:
>
> * Athena 9.2 will almost certainly include a
> /usr/athena/bin/xscreensaver. (There will of course be symlinks
> for xss, xss-command, etc.)
>
> * We would like SIPB to change the name of the sipb locker
> xscreensaver to something else, before July 1, so that people who
> "add -f sipb" will not lose (probably in minor ways) when GNOME
> software attempts to run "xscreensaver" and gets the SIPB
> xscreensaver.
xscreensaver has been in the release for quite a while (I worked on it
when I was a watchmaker, so the summer of 1999 release...that's 8.3?),
and it interacts *really badly* with SIPB xscreensaver and other
similar tools. I haven't seen that many people losing recently, but
it still happens occasionally. Perhaps we should deprecate SIPB
xscreensaver and remove it from the locker altogether?
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David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
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