Please standardize Screen saver DBus interfaces

[Ali Abdallah]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I'm speaking about XRestSceenSaver call periodically, not to disable the 
screen saver.


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