From kde-devel  Fri Jun 28 21:55:30 2002
From: ian reinhart geiser <geiseri () yahoo ! com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:55:30 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Screensavers
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I have some OpenGL screensavers in the kdeartwork module.
What I did for mine was to base my code off of the blank mode screen saver.  
Really doing screensavers in KDE is painfully simple.  I think there is also 
a KDevelop template to do them too.

If you have any questions though you can ask me.
Cheers
- -ian reinhart geiser

On Friday 28 June 2002 05:30 pm, Karl Robillard wrote:
> I'm porting an OpenGL Windows screensaver to KDE and I have a few
> questions.
>
> What is the status of KDE screensavers?
> It seems like the same few boring savers have been part of KDE for years.
> Is there some reason that no one writes KDE screensavers?
>
> Xscreensaver author Jamie Zawinski seems to think there are problems with
> KDE screensavers, but in his 2002-04-03 post to this list he doesn't really
> explain what those problems are (why are multiple configuration tools are
> bad?)  What are the issues here?  I've looked briefly at the GTK
> xscreensaver setup tool shipped with RedHat 7.3 and there doesn't seem to
> be any GUI configuration for the savers - you just type command line
> arguments in a string widget.  This doesn't seem suitable for either
> desktop project (GNOME/KDE).
>
> How do I get my savers into the official KDE CVS tree?
>
> I didn't find any documentation on 'How to write a KDE screensaver'.  Does
> such a document exist?
>
> Lastly, my saver runs fine in the preview window and in my setup dialog. 
> When it runs fullscreen using the 'Test' button or in 'real' saver mode,
> however, the display just has weird artifacts while the saver is running. 
> I'm using this code to create the saver, where FluxWidget is derived from
> QGLWidget:
>
>
> KFluxScreenSaver::KFluxScreenSaver( WId id ) : KScreenSaver( id )
> {
>     readSettings();
>     _flux = new FluxWidget;
>     embed( _flux );
>     _flux->show();
> }
>
>
> -Karl Robillard
>
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