Re: Welcome

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

> I plan on proposing gnome-screensaver for inclusion in the GNOME desktop 
> for 2.14 in a couple of weeks.  What else should be done by then?
>
> One item that probably could use some review and discussion is the 
> screensaver DBus API.
>
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-screensaver/doc/DBUS-API.txt?view=markup
>
> One of my goals is for this, or something like it, to become a cross 
> desktop, implementation independent interface.
Is your idea to just make a specification of the protocol and that other 
screensavers such as kscreensaver can implement that as well or make 
some kind of library that others can use?

In either case I think it is a good idea to talk to the maintainer of 
kscreensaver and other screensavers. Small thingy you probably already 
thought of is that you might want to replace the word gnome with 
something like freedesktop in the DBUS Service DBUS Object Path and DBUS 
Interface.

Another idea is maybe some contest for screensaver authors to get some 
high quality screensavers and a default screensaver for GNOME 2.14

Jaap