FC5T3: Why only so few screensavers available to choose in in KDE?

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 02/26/2006 07:08 PM, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:38 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>> On 02/25/2006 05:56 PM, Remi Collet wrote:
>>> Terry Polzin a écrit :
>>>> On Saturday February 25 2006 08:08, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> For some reason I can see only very limited number of screensavers (21
>>>>> in total) in KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver
>>>>> panel. I know there are plenty more installed since choosing "Random"
>>>>> option will result in screensaver I cannot choose manually. Worse yet,
>>>>> half of the available ones are OpenGL (10) that do not seem to work on
>>>>> my hardware :( I have a full list on FC3 box but not on FC5t3...
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this supoosed to be this way? Why?
>>>>>     
>>>> In FC4 there was a separate screen sever package (xscreensaver-base) 
>>>> that has to be installed manually
>>>>   
>>> There are 3 additionals RPM available
>>> xscreensaver-extras-4.24-1.1
>>> xscreensaver-gl-extras-4.24-1.1
>>> xscreensaver-base-4.24-1.1
>> xscreensaver-base package helped a lot, thanks!
>>
>> Question still remains: why not all installed (in default install) 
>> screensavers are listed in Control Center?
>>
> 
> The screensavers package used to include all the screensavers and many
> people were having problems because the gl screensavers were causing
> lock-ups on systems that could not run the gl packages in X.
> AIUI, the base package does not have any of the gl screensavers so that
> is avoided. The extras and gl-extras are just that -- additional
> screensavers that some might want.

The problem is not with xscreensaver-* packages -- these seem fine and 
in fact have to be installed separately (at least I have not had them 
installed by default). The problem is apparently with gnome-screensavers 
package, which installs X screensavers but only Y are listed in Control 
Center and in Gnome to choose from, where Y < X. That is: not all 
screensavers installed are listed. Moreover about half of the listed 
ones are gl and may not work on every machine or work rather miserably.

See bug 183125.

Regards,
Dariusz

	
	
		
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