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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Screensavers
From:       Martin Jones <mjones () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2002-07-03 4:52:37
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 07:30, 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?

I started writing a tutorial long ago, but I never finished it.  Here's the 
document to date: http://trolls.troll.no/~mjones/ksstutorial-1.1.tgz

Maybe someone would like to clean up the HTML and put it somewhere useful.

Martin.
 
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