From kde-devel Sat Mar 18 10:57:47 2000 From: Thomas Leitner Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:57:47 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Screensaver port ('The Matrix') X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=95337711511693 On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote: > "Martin R. Jones" wrote: > > > > None of these screensavers has any extra features, and there's > > no point maintaining them when they're better maintained elsewhere. > > I also wouldn't consider any of them so cool that a default > > KDE should include them (I think matrix may be cool enough > > though :-) > > > Just that only those knowing the movie have an idea what this should > be ;-) The matrix screensaver might be cool enough, but it's a terrible memory hog when using any non-trival configurations. kmatrix.kss typically has about 10MB allocated here even when it's not active. This is a real waste of virtual memory. Why can't the screensaver be split into two parts: a very small and lightweight "watcher" process which watches the desktop for timeouts and as soon as it times out, starts the real screensaver which does the graphics and all the other fancy stuff? Tom -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Tom Leitner Dept. of Communications Graz University of Technology, e-mail : tom@radar.tu-graz.ac.at Inffeldgasse 12 Phone : +43-316-873-7455 A-8010 Graz / Austria / Europe Fax : +43-316-463-697 Home page : http://wiis.tu-graz.ac.at/people/tom.html PGP public key on : ftp://wiis.tu-graz.ac.at/pgp-keys/tom.asc or send mail with subject "get Thomas Leitner" to pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before we have the paperless office, we have the paperless toilet!