>> From a user point of view, if I say that you should not look for image >> files to display, you should just not do that. This is a bug in >> Xscreensaver. There is no good reason why it should give an error. > >With your settings, the only option is to change the failure mode from >"print an error message as text", to "don't print any text and just >display colorbars or black instead".
As a user, I would expect that if I say "don't look fo images on my disk" nobody would say "hey, you know? I cannot find images on your disk". Maybe I am naive, but this sounds obvious to me. This means that this is a bug. As a programmer, knowing the above I can see at least two ways out. For a start, Xscreensaver should avoid calling a program which needs image files when it is told that disk files should not be read. As far as the specific program is concerned, it could convert the display image to JPEG, if that's really what it needs. Maybe none of these is simple or maybe no one is willing to do that. But this is different from ignoring the problem. As a maintainer, I could say that the problem is real and that it will be pushed upstream. Which again is different from not spending time on it. >Doesn't seem like much of an improvement to me. So I'm not gonna spend >time on that. It is certainly would be an improvement from a user point of view to not seeing an error which is meant for a programmer. That said, thank you for helping maintaining Xscreensaver. -- IPIN'19 http://ipin2019.isti.cnr.it Voice: +39.050.621.3058 Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Skype: wnlabisti via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it
