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Subject: Re: Screensavers
From: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele () mccammon ! ucsd ! edu>
Date: 2002-06-29 21:31:40
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> 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).
A couple of points on this metter:
- Xscreensavers 4.02 and up DO work with KDE's kdesktop_lock
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=101787059008234&w=2
This is exactly why people don't waste their time with kscreensavers -
why port what already works?
- Kcontrol kscreensaver module is not as flexibile as xscreensaver-demo.
There is no way to select 3-5 screensavers for later random picking
amongst them only. (this is what really needs improvement.
- (personnaly) I think kscreensaver's pipes are uglier than xscreensaver's.
kscreensaver collection is several times smaller.
- just too many bugs:
http://bugs.kde.org/db/pa/lkscreensaver.html
sincerely, a.
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