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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Screensavers
From:       Jamie Zawinski <jwz () jwz ! org>
Date:       2002-07-01 20:19:01
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Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> (e.g. xscreensaver has no support for translations last time I checked, which
> was one reason we added a layer on top)

It does now, because the GNOME folks sent me patches to support gettext.
(Sending patches is always a better approach than throwing it away and
writing your own clone of it.)

> Currently the xscreensaver support in KDE uses a config format, that is
> concurrent to the XML config files of xscreensaver (I don't know, but I doubt
> xscreensaver had XML config files back then), so I plan to use these XML
> config files instead, so our translators can provide translations, that other
> xscreensaver users can benefit from too. Is that ok with you, Jamie?

That sounds like a fine idea for how to end up with a KDE-themed screen
saver configurator.

Are you still using your own re-implementation of the xscreensaver
daemon as well?  Or has that finally gone away?

-- 
Jamie Zawinski
jwz@jwz.org             http://www.jwz.org/
jwz@dnalounge.com       http://www.dnalounge.com/
 
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