Ship fewer screensavers by default
Bug #385850 reported by
Wouter Stomp
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Robert Ancell | ||
gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
xscreensaver (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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xscreensaver (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
In all places Ubuntu ships with a sensible set of default settings. There are 5 wallpapers, 9 themes, but actually more than 80 screensavers in the default installation! This is far too many. A selection of max about 10 of the best of them should be selected. All other can be split of to a screensavers-extra package for people that still want them. This will also save several mb's on the cd.
Related branches
lp:~andrewsomething/xscreensaver/bug-385850
- Robert Ancell: Approve
- Diff: None lines
lp:~andrewsomething/ubuntu/karmic/ubuntu-meta/remove-rss-glx
- Registry Administrators: Pending requested
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Diff: 97 lines8 files modifieddebian/changelog (+6/-0)
desktop-amd64 (+0/-1)
desktop-armel (+0/-1)
desktop-i386 (+0/-1)
desktop-ia64 (+0/-1)
desktop-lpia (+0/-1)
desktop-powerpc (+0/-1)
desktop-sparc (+0/-1)
summary: |
- Ship less screensavers by default + Ship fewer screensavers by default |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → round-4 |
Changed in xscreensaver (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in xscreensaver (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in xscreensaver (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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Many people actually love to see all the screensavers (running in Random), others have their favourites which they don't want to see go away. On Ubuntu 9.04 there are 3 packages shipping screensaver hacks (in addition to the ca 4 .desktop ones coming with "gnome- screensaver) :
14 xscreensaver-data installed size 1.1 MB (of which hack binaries: 0.6)
43 xscreensaver-gl installed size 4.7 MB (hack binaries: 4.0)
19 rss-glx installed size 3.9 MB (hack binaries 3.4)
Of course, on the Desktop CD the root fs is compressed, so the CD size savings would be smaller. On the Alternate CD, the debs consumes 0.4, 1.9 and 3.0 MB respectively.