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The awful thing about getting it right the first time
- jpatokal 13y agoWorthwhile long version rant: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
- angersock 13y agoNice thing about Crunchbang...they seem to skip installing broken/mutant versions of tools that Just Work (tm). I'm perpetually dumbfounded at the direction that Ubuntu seems to be taking.
- makaveli8 13y agoWho else has absolutely no idea what this is about?
- angersock 13y agoLong story short: JWZ created XScreensaver back in the day, using raw Xlib. He did this because he did not trust the security of larger toolkits/programs--a screen locker must be so simple that it can't go wrong, and none of the larger libraries is auditable/verifiable in that respect. If it crashes, somebody gets access to your desktop. Every five years or so, some group in the *nix community decides that they know better than Grandpa Zawinski, and they reinvent XScreensaver--however, they usually do so poorly, and insecurely.