Package: xscreensaver-data-extra Severity: normal
Hi. I wanted to give kudos to Jose for his calm and helpful handling of #553529 (and similar). I know I overreacted to call it serious or worse when I had a user experience it, because it was someone who had already been through too much and I was worried about, but Jose was still helpful and came up with a good solution for the problem of screen savers that aren't appropriate for non-technical users, or (in the case of webcollage and and the 'Erect Penis' GLSnake) that may be an in issue in the workplace for a *professional* OS, as least in North America, and/or which could impede acceptance by non-profits who could really benefit from open source. It is heartening to know there are other techies out there with maturity and compassion for their non-technical friends, family, clients, or other users they support. It frustrates me when I see people like the xscreensaver upstream (Jamie Z.) call users who aren't very technical 'functionally retarded' because they panic when they see a 'my computer is probably screwed message' and they don't know it's a joke. Debian (and derivatives) is used by many more people than the hardcore geek crowd, and people like me who are hardcore geeks (or sysadmins) will use Debian for system they administer, but who's primary users aren't that tech savvy. Especially since there are no distros based on debian that use gnome/gtk/xfce rather than kde, that are based on stable. MEPIS sounds like it would be promising, but it is based on KDE and for my purposes that makes it unsuitable because I no longer have the time to learn the background configuration magic for yet another desktop system so that I can administer family and friend systems and do things like 'sysadmin-wide-system-defaults' or whatever (where I am the sysadmin). I have invested major part of my time and energy in a combination of work and developing for OpenWRT, not mention girlfriend, and relatives. That really doesn't leave a lot of time for Debian development, I find it hard enough to get time to do decent bug reports (I've improved and haven't pressed the panic button lately (though I did have a misunderstanding about what was a policy violation that made a bug RC, so marked some bugs that weren't that important to me as RC, because I thought under policy they were). If I'm lucky this week I'll have time to help debug a kernel regression I found (an indisputable one which I've been asked try a patched kernel for getting debug information, though for the kernel it's probably just normal (maybe important because it's a regression) even though it borks USB on the system). Anyway, that's kind of off topic, but thanks again Jose for your help and great work! Regards, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xscreensaver-data-extra depends on: ii dictionaries-common 1.11.5 Common utilities for spelling dict ii libc6 2.13-16 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-3 GDK Pixbuf library ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg-progs 8c-2 Programs for manipulating JPEG fil ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-1 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii netpbm 2:10.0-15 Graphics conversion tools between pn xscreensaver-data <none> (no description available) xscreensaver-data-extra recommends no packages. xscreensaver-data-extra suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
