From kde-devel  Sun Mar 19 10:33:50 2000
From: "Martin R. Jones" <mjones () powerup ! com ! au>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:33:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Screensaver port ('The Matrix')
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Thomas Leitner wrote:
> 
> 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?

KDE 2.0 does this.

-- 
Martin Jones
mjones@powerup.com.au
mjones@kde.org