[Portland] Adding support for xfce4-sreensaver to xdg-screensaver

[Thomas Kluyver]

There are certainly people who can merge things: 2 merge requests got
merged in 2020. But there hasn't been a release in nearly 3 years, and
there are open pull requests even for small changes which aren't getting
any comments. I see Rex Dieter (CCed) looked at MR 15 a couple of weeks ago
- maybe he can say more about the maintenance status of xdg-utils.

I see that one of the other open MRs is also trying to integrate XFCE
screensaver support (
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/36 ). If
there is anyone willing to review & merge changes, you might strengthen the
case by working together with the author of that one (agree on an approach,
have one of you review what the other did).

Best wishes,
Thomas

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 16:43, Jarno Suni <sunijarno at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean that there is no one to accept merge requests for
> xdg-utils? I is sad, if the project is so dead.
>
> I am interested in using "xdg-screensaver lock" in xflock4 script of
> Xfce to delegate detecting running screensaver daemon to it. I can
> detect xfce4-screensaver outside xdg-screensaver in Xfce, though.
> Another use case for xdg-screensaver could be inhibiting screensaver
> in certain circumstances, but I am not familiar with those techniques.
> I read the script a bit and there seem to be different techniques
> applied for different screensavers.
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:15 PM Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A look at the list archives (
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/ ) suggests it's as dead
> as a doormat, unfortunately. The Gitlab issues & merge requests for
> xdg-utils are marginally more alive, but that's not saying much.
> >
> > I get the impression that no-one really feels resposible for the 'XDG'
> projects, so maintenance is sporadic and questions frequently don't get
> answered at all. This definitely doesn't apply to all freedesktop.org
> projects, but I think most things with xdg in the name are not very
> actively maintained.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 06:23, Jarno Suni <sunijarno at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It is mentioned as the contact channel in
> >> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/ though.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:34 AM Alberto Salvia Novella
> >> <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I suspect nobody really reads this mailing list. For instance I'm
> unsubscribing from it now. Send any replies to my address.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 20:58, Jarno Suni <sunijarno at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> And made a merge request. Support for commands suspend, resume and
> >> >> status remain to be implemented. I am not sure, what is the best way
> >> >> and I am not very familiar with the functions.
> >> >>
> >> >> I also made some improvement (I believe) in detection of desktop
> >> >> environment. What do you think about it?
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