Bug#344559: Including .desktop files

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:25 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:04 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > If you do, it would probably be best to split the package and only ship
> > a select few of the screensavers by default, similar to how Ubuntu does
> > this; http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/xscreensaver-data
> 
> This might not be necessary: the fdo menu spec allows us to specify
> which screensavers are enabled by default. Although I don't know if
> there is a way for the user to enable any that we have disabled;
> currently I believe the enable/disabled status is reflected by
> hiding/showing screensavers in g-s-preferences rather than by greying
> them out or giving them a checkbox.

That sounds like a good idea. It looks like upstream is at least
planning to add functionality to enable/disable screensavers from the
preferences; http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316462

> My main concern here is really to prevent screensavers that have been
> known to show controvertial content (webcollage, the RSS reader one,
> etc.) from being enabled without the user's consent. Ideally we should
> display some kind of "screensavers that display third party content may
> contain unexpected porn and nazi propoganda and get you in trouble"
> warning when these hacks are enabled, but this is really a discussion
> for a separate bug. :)

Another concern is stripping out screensavers that need some kind of
configuration before being run, as this goes against the design of
gnome-screensaver. 

There's also the question of translations of screensaver descriptions.
The migrate script from gnome-screensaver doesn't seem to support this.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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