Bug#436339: vlc: should recommend xdg-utils

Mika Tiainen mikat at iki.fi
Sun Oct 24 17:15:45 UTC 2010


On 24 Oct 2010, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:29:08PM +0300, Mika Tiainen wrote:
>>
>> VLC relies on xdg-screensaver (found in xdg-utils package) for
>> controlling the screensaver, without it screensaver is not disabled.
>>
>> See http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4272#comment:1 for upstream
>> comment.
>
> This should then be a suggests only, I believe: vlc works fine without
> it.

Depends on your definition of fine. Disable screensaver option is
enabled by default, but without xdg-screensaver it just silently fails
to work.

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