Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:11:40PM -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> Will the screensavers in xscreensaver be ported to gnome-screensaver?

They're not supposed to require porting, but gnome-screensaver requires
a .desktop file to be present to describe each of the screensavers which
it will use, and xscreensaver doesn't provide them.

The %post and %trigger scripts in the gnome-screensaver package are
supposed to create these .desktop files automatically.  This didn't used
to work perfectly, but it should be fixed as of 2.13.90-4, so if you're
still seeing the problem with that version, we need to know.

HTH,

Nalin