Re: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]

[shuihuzhuan free fr]

Hi Jasper,

I understand that screensavers are not needed to save screen anymore. But they had for me another functionality :
enjoy the screen when I'm not using the computer (like a big photoframe). It's nice (but sometimes distracting)
to have a random slideshow -automaticaly- enabled/disabled (I didn't used the other screensavers).

However, if I try to do a simple slideshow program to replace gnome-screensaver (no locking, no user-switch just an automatic slideshow), what's the minimum required interface to be recognised/used by gnome as a screensaver (so it can be activated when idle, but not when watching a film or shotwell's slideshow)? Is it all via dbus, a screensaver-command interface or something completly different? (my C skills are 15y old without practice, so reading the C code of gnome-screensaver is not very meaningfull to me or it would take years to begin).

And thanks for your reply

----- Mail original -----
De: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
À: shuihuzhuan free fr
Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Envoyé: Mardi 21 Février 2012 18:03:59
Objet: Re: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]

I think it's just removing things of a passing era gone by to save
some space. The issues that screensavers solved were fixed in the
hardware at least ten years ago. And as just a side note, my Windows 7
machine didn't ship with anything other than a blank screensaver,
either.

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  Jasper