Just my $.02. I've been in "discussion" with the developer (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654) on and off for close to a year on this.
And his rather odd position continues to be "any screensaver theme that requires configuration is inherently broken." Recently he suggested someone else fix his work. An Ubuntu user I was hoping I could persuade someone at Ubuntu to do just that. -- no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver https://launchpad.net/bugs/22007 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs