From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 28 14:08:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03766 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:08:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03700 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:08:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA23132; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:08:22 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:08:22 +0100 (MET) To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphical screen saver References: <199801280252.UAA08226@detlev.UUCP> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 28 Jan 1998 23:08:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: Joel Ray Holveck's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:52:44 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Joel Ray Holveck writes: > If we're going to do start doing graphical screensavers, then I > suggest making the mechanism more general, rather than requiring a Yup. I'm all for Mike's (or was it Joel's?) idea of making a general shell for graphical screensavers, so that people can just write the image update code and not have to bother with the "hard bits" (i.e. making things work safely wrt syscons) -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"