On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 10:21 pm, Ben Burton wrote: > > does anyone know what has happened to various KDE screensavers, > > e.g. kslidescreen? This is my favourite one. > > They can be found in the KDE 3.1.5 packages, but I can't find them > > in the new 3.2 packages anymore, I can't even find them in the KDE > > CVS. > > AIUI, a number of screensavers were removed from KDE 3.2 since they > were more or less clones of xscreensavers,
Hum ... that seems to me to be a shame. On the face of it the KDE screensavers seem higher quality than the xscreensaver ones ... more polished. They (obviously) integrate better into KDE - e.g. that xscreensaver password entry box is somewhat clunkier than the nice shiny KDE one. Some of the xscreensaver modules crash on my system, whereas the KDE ones never do. The gazillion xscreensavers vary in quality (I realise this is subjective) and I'd prefer to see the best of them ported to KDE native mode. > .... and KDE provides perfectly > good bindings to xscreensavers anyway. On my system, the only way to get the xscreensavers activated is via their own clunky Motif-style setup dialog and the xscreensaver daemon, but I'm wondering whether you're referring to the ".desktop" files that seem to relate one-to-one with the xscreensavers ... these don't work at all on my system. I'll be posting about this shortly. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK
