Please standardize Screen saver DBus interfaces

[Ali Abdallah]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 15:24 +0200, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>   
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 15:18 +0200, Ali Abdallah wrote:
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>>>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
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>>> <snip>
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
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>>>>>       
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>>>> Which should be the other way round.
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>>>>         
>>> 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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>>>       
>> I'm speaking about XRestSceenSaver call periodically, not to disable the 
>> screen saver.
>>     
>
> Which Totem doesn't use (but gnome-screensaver would).
>
>   
It is not used in gnome-screensaver either.

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