Why is xscreensaver removed in favor of gnome-screensaver

[Miles Lane]

On 2/17/06, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/18/06, Miles Lane <miles.lane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One more issue is that the gnome-screensaver "fade out" when it starts
> > to display a screensaver takes way too long.  I think the fade should last,
> > at most, about four seconds.  Right now, it seems to take about ten
> > seconds to fade out before starting to display the screensaver.
>
> I think this is to give a grace period so you can notice the
> screensaver activating and do something before the screen gets locked.
> I don't think the current way of doing it is very good. Instead, the
> screensaver should start normally, without a long fade in, but extend
> the grace period into the running of the screensaver a bit.

Wow, that would be a huge improvement!  Maybe some Gnome folks
at Redhat could submit this change or maintain a patch for it?
If I am not mistaken, the vast majority of key Gnome development
people still work for Ximian/Novell, so I don't know how practical
this could be.

       Miles