From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 25 1: 4:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B079137B408 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.141.74.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.141.74]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10746; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B5E7DB3.97656D3C@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:05:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? References: <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > This is to propose to abolish KLD screen saver modules. > > KLD screen savers have the following problems/deficiencies. [ ... ] > I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD > screen savers. [ ... "performance degradation" ... ] [ ... "file access" ... ] I don't see either of these as being compelling arguments in favor of a user space implementation; I guess this means you want to do file access in your screen saver(s). Now if you could run Windows screen saver modules, you might have a good argument for change, above and beyond "change for the sake of change". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message