Re: Replacing xscreensaver
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org, Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>, Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
- Subject: Re: Replacing xscreensaver
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 13:09:51 -0400
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> In short, I think the only option to solve these problems is going
> either with a more or less permanent xscreensaver fork (as KDE has
> done)
Note that KDE does use the xscreensaver hacks if they are present. You
can also write a hack specific to the KDE screensaver app, but I'm not
sure how many of those exist.
> or with a complete replacement. Either way, significant contributions
> have to be made, and I have no suggestions as for how to solve that
> problem. I only have a strong belief that continuing on the default
> xscreensaver route is unlikely to get these problems fixed anytime
> soon.
We need someone to do the work. They're going to need a serious
asbestos suit, though.
Havoc
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