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[Bug 22007] Re: no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver

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From: zcat <zcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:50:42 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 22007 <22007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Back when I first started running Ubuntu the screensavers _WERE_
configurable.

So was the login window.

I could choose what application ran when I inserted a DVD, eg have it
run dvd:rip rather than the small number of programs that Ubuntu has
deemed an acceptable 'player' for DVDs.

I could configure dial-up networking, and it worked on all the ISP's I
ever needed to use it with.

It's not just this bug, but this bug is one glaring example of the whole
problem.

This obsession with "removing" all of the configurability is driving
people away from Ubuntu. You're perpetuating the myth (by making it not
a myth at all) that either Linux is greatly inferior to Windows because
it has so fewer options, or that nothing useful can be done in Linux
without resorting to a terminal.

Please. Fix this BUG.

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no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22007
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