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by acqq 5075 days ago
"The application which just shows pretty pictures, formerly known as XScreenSaver"

The goal to avoid user confusion and scams is a good goal. Even if there are a few millions XScreenSaver users (wow) on another platforms, there are orders of magnitude more potential new users who should not be mislead. How to avoid confusion is a good question, but accepting the old name doesn't appear to be a provably best solution.

Can't the name be different but the application appear in searches based on the reference to the name of XScreenSaver somewhere in the description?