Please standardize Screen saver DBus interfaces

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue May 19 06:23:36 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 15:18 +0200, Ali Abdallah wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
<snip>
> > That's wrong. Totem uses XSetScreenSaver when:
> > 1) There's no screensaver on the D-Bus that it supports (eg. no
> > gnome-screensaver)
> > 2) It's not compiled with XTest support, or XTest isn't available.
> >
> > Eg. Totem uses XSetScreenSaver when everything else fails.
> >
> >   
> 
> Which should be the other way round.

Certainly not, using XSetScreenSaver means that if your app crashes,
you'll end up with a disabled screensaver, instead of having the
defaults restored.



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