A review of the screensavers section in Hardy?

[shafin]

One of the main reasons that ubuntu is so popular is that it is not bloated.It does not throw upon one all the stuff the linux community has to offer.It keeps the shelf simple by choosing sane defaults and using just them.Then the user can install whole repositories if they want,but the base is simple and elegantly chosen.

The screensavers are where I tend to find a glaring difference with this approach.Yes,its a minor inconvenience, rather a minor discontinuity,but I think it's one that is needed to be addressed. The screensavers section is full with screensavers, loads of them, many of whom are never used. Some look like they are from the ages of Red Hat 5.

So what I want is a review of this section in Hardy. By default.I want no more than 5-10 screensavers installed,including a blank one and a slideshow one.The others should be sleek and modern.That way,the screensaver section would look professional,and the present screensavers should go into repository for those who need it. It will also free up valuable space in the Live CD which can be used to include some other great packages.

What do you think?

[sloggerkhan]

I think people have had various issues with the screensaver section and usally they all get distilled down to "it's an upstream problem with GNOME, have the GNOME dev deal with it" and if you look into it, screensavers aren't exactly a high priority for GNOME.

Typically, people want things such as:
*enabling the screensaver options via gui
*getting rid of ugly ones
*making it so that the random feature only randomizes between selected screensavers
I don't know, I've seen some other things, too, just not remembering them.
My personal pet peeve is that some of them seem to be more taxing to my system than gaming (not using gpu?) and it makes me afraid to use random.