[8419] in SIPB bug reports
Re: SIPB xscreensaver name change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Mar 5 23:01:58 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:58:21 -0500
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
To: David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <87k7fdurak.fsf@cag.lcs.mit.edu>
> 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?
Yeah...I think replacing it with a script that tells you about the
renaming and doesn't run the sipb xscreensaver would be simpler than
Greg's suggestion and would not adversely affect users. It's not like
we've been inundated with demands for an updated Solaris and Irix
version. I don't see any harm in keeping it around under a new
name...there are plenty of other pointy objects in afs space.
yak
