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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Screensavers
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-06-29 11:47:01
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On Friday June 28, 2002 09:16, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
> Actually its because no-one ever saw how much easier it was to write KDE
> screen savers, I tried to write a screensaver for XScreensaver... after
> 2 hours of futzing the the API i just used KScreensaver...  2hours later
> I had KFountain working.  :)  For the record screensavers for KDE run
> perfectly with blackbox :)  In the end I suppose it is all in the taste
> of the coder.

No, it's also in the quality of the libraries. :-)

>
> > > But from a more practical standpoint: I maintain xscreensaver.
> > > Who maintains the KDE reimplementation of it?  I suspect "nobody."
> >
> > I'm hoping someone on this list will confirm or deny that.
>
> I am thinking from the state of disrepair they have not been maintained
> by one person for some time.

Disrepair?  Can you elaborate?

As far as I can see here in KDE 3.0, the only thing that broke was 
xscreensaver compatibility, and that was only becuase xscreensaver's 
maintainer removed the feature with the stated purpose of making it 
impossible to work with GUIs not maintained by him.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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