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4.6 is lacking an entry for the screensaver
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
General

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Description David Mohr 2009-06-18 23:54:54 CEST
Created attachment 2409 
Desktop file which adds the xscreensaver settings

4.4 had an entry in the settings manager for the screensaver, by starting xscreensaver-demo.

Attached is a .desktop file which adds the dialog back. It is based off  xscreensaver-properties.desktop on my Debian sid system. IMHO it'd be great if this could go into the next bugfix release.
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2009-06-23 19:50:44 CEST
Not sure this is really appropriate for us to include.  xscreensaver-demo has at times included a .desktop file of its own.

Regardless, there's no reason to add X-XFCE (which should be X-Xfce anyway), or X-XfceSettingsDialog Categories.

And also, if we're going to do something like this, we need to have a way to invoke different screensaver prefs dialogs depending on which screensaver is running... this is just not a good idea as-is.
Comment 2 David Mohr 2009-06-23 21:17:00 CEST
Yes, xscreensaver does have its own .desktop file - as I mentioned, mine is based on it, so that it'll show up in the settings, where any normal user would expect it.

I didn't think about different screensavers, that's true. I guess it's more complicated than a simple .desktop file. Oh well...
Comment 3 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2010-09-28 19:45:31 CEST
Do we really want this? The Xfce Settings Manager should IMO only take care of Xfce settings and we shouldn't add entries for non-Xfce things, that would clutter it.
Comment 4 Edward 2011-03-12 19:32:27 CET
Created attachment 3549 
XFCE4 Settings Manager window from Debian 6.0.0 (32-bit) installation

The icon for Screensaver is not displayed.
Comment 5 Edward 2011-03-12 19:33:18 CET
I do not know if the lack of a Screensaver icon on a new Debian installation is related to this.  Please see attached screenshot.
Comment 6 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-03-25 19:57:35 CEST
Fixed.

Bug #5481

Reported by:
David Mohr
Reported on: 2009-06-18
Last modified on: 2012-03-25

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Stephan Arts
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