Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 2/17/06, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that neither of the reasons they list are very good. Having
> one extra button to open a second dialogue hardly clutters the UI, and
> makes it no harder for the user. To let system admins lock down
> settings, they should simply provide a "Don't show or let users open
> advanced controls." key.

UI issues aside..you'd have to store the per-user configs somewhere...
that means making room in GConf for per-xscreensaver-hack
configuration keys. Which means creating schema for each and every
xscreensaver-hack which could take per-user configs as well as keys
which can be applied across all screensaver-hacks on a per-user basis.
So that it could be locked down at a site policy level.

-jef