Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Dave Atkins]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> James Jones wrote:
> 
> >Jonathan Berry wrote:
. . . 
> >Yes, but... wasn't that only added after users raised a major ruckus
> >about the imposition of spatial mode?
> >
> It was previously configurable as GConf key.
> 
> -- 
> Rahul 

The Gnome bog-standard answer "Configurable as a GConf key" translates
to "not user configurable" for most end users.

Whereas, a tick-box in the Nautilus preferences control panel could do
the same thing with minimal pain.

It seems silly to put all the code in to modify the window behavior, and
look-and-feel, and not go the extra 10% to write a means to configure
it.

D.