xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver conflict in Preferences menu

[Tomm Purnell]

If you install xscreensaver, and then gnome-screensaver, you will get two
identically named 'Screensaver' entries in the System -> Preferences menu.
Removing xscreensaver resolves this. Perhaps making the two packages conflict
would resolve this in a simple way.

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

same here. I had xscreensaver from when I installed Breezy Preview release.
Then a recent ubuntu-desktop upgrade installed gnome-screensaver, but didn't
remove xscreensaver. After this, in the preferences menu, two "screensaver"
items were present. Manually removing xscreensaver removed the extra preference
entry.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

its already solved locally here, i'm just waiting on some confirmations from
several testers of other changes, it will be fixed in the next upload.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

fixed with gnome-screensaver 0.0.13-0ubuntu4

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Reopening. If for some reason both packages are installed, the menu names are identical.

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

I'm coming here from Bug #382475. Can these two packages be made to conflict with each other? I don't see a good reason why anyone would want both installed, and I don't think the Design Team is keen on having menu entries like "XScreenSaver" and "GNOME Screensaver".

(arrgh... how do I mark this as also affecting "gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)"?)

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Daniel, you may have for instance XFCE and Gnome users on the same machine. Or you log in to either a XFCE or Gnome session depending on what work you are going to do. I think the xscreensaver preferences could be called "XScreenSaver" in honour of its proper name, I don't think the Design Team, who gave us for instance "gedit Text Editor", would mind :)