You are welcome to provide a patch for the VLC 1.0-bugfix branch if you are not happy.
In VLC 1.1, the problem is off-shored to xdg-screensaver. So it's up to GNOME screensaver and XDG-utils to interoperate. And so there is no fix to be made on VLC's side.
You are welcome to provide a patch for the VLC 1.0-bugfix branch if you are not happy.
In VLC 1.1, the problem is off-shored to xdg-screensaver. So it's up to GNOME screensaver and XDG-utils to interoperate. And so there is no fix to be made on VLC's side.