Re: Replacing xscreensaver

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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