Package: kscreensaver
Version: 4:4.8.4-2
Severity: normal
The descriptions of kscreensaver, kscreensaver-xsavers and
libkscreensaver need to be revisited to clarify and avoid confusion. We
currently have:
libkscreensaver: library of the KDE Screensaver system
This package contains libraries needed for kscreensaver.
This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.
kscreensaver: Additional screensavers for KScreenSaver
This package contains screensavers for KScreenSaver.
KScreenSaver can use XScreenSaver collection of screensavers with the
'kscreensaver-xsavers' package.
This package is part of the KDE artwork module.
kscreensaver-xsavers: xscreensaver support for KScreenSaver
This package allows KScreenSaver to use the XScreenSaver collection of
screensavers.
This package is part of the KDE artwork module.
The main problem is that the meaning of "KScreenSaver" is unclear. One
could think that KScreenSaver is provided by the kscreensaver package
and that kscreensaver's description would describe KScreenSaver. But
this is not the case. The kscreensaver package's short description is
"Additional screensavers for KScreenSaver". Therefore, the kscreensaver
package clearly doesn't contain KScreenSaver. Unfortunately, I can't say
what KScreenSaver is. Is KScreenSaver provided by some package? All I
can say is that at one point there was a kscreensaver command
(/usr/bin/kscreensaver), which, I believe, would launch KControl's
screensaver module. This is no longer the case.
One option, which I think is a good choice, would be to remove any
reference to KScreenSaver, at least for kscreensaver{,-xsavers}.
Whatever KScreenSaver is, it doesn't seem to have any screensaver by
default, so the description "Additional screensavers for KScreenSaver"
seems broken. "Screensavers for KDE" would probably be better.
While we're at it, I wonder if "kscreensaver" is a good package name.
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