Bug 62996 – greynetic screensaver gives headaches

Bug 62996 - greynetic screensaver gives headaches

Summary:	greynetic screensaver gives headaches

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	xscreensaver (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2002-04-08 19:15 EDT by David Vos
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:26 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-04-08 19:15:37 EDT
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Description David Vos 2002-04-08 19:15:31 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901

Description of problem:
The xscreensaver package includes the 'greynetic' screensaver as one of the
default random screensavers. (using gnome)  The 'greynetic' screensaver is _not_
asthetically pleasing and may scare newbies away from linux.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install RedHat Linux 7.2, using gnome.
	

Actual Results:  greynetic gave me a headache.  ; )

Expected Results:  greynetic should probably not be installed by default.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-06-12 02:51:09 EDT

We normally  don't turn them off for aesthetic reasons; I'd rather not inflict
my aesthetics on everyone.

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