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

[Jeff Vian]

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.

I believe there was also a security issue with some of the extras
screensavers in that they would actually display what was on the desktop
while using sections of the display as puzzle pieces or morphing them.
The ability had to be available to NOT allow that type of screensaver
for organizations with high security requirements.  Separating the
packages simplifies that.
  
> Is this a bug?
> 
> Regards,
> Dariusz