Re: gnome-screensaver 0.0.2

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 14:34 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you to those of you who pointed out Jamie Zawinski's article on 
> the use of toolkits in lock dialogs 
> <http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html>.  The timing of that 
> article was uncanny.
> 
> This new version splits out the lock dialog to run as a subprocess, adds 
> user switching via GDM, and removes the GTK+ dependency from all but the 
> separate lock dialog.  It still depends on a fairly small amount of GDK.
> 
> http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/~mccannwj/GNOME/gnome-screensaver-0.0.2.tar.gz
> 
> Does anyone think this is interesting enough to import into CVS or worth 
> continuing?

I think it is a very worthwhile project- I haven't been able to
build/run it yet, but it's been something we've talked about needing for
ages. I hope you'll continue it through to completion.

Luis