From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 28 17:01:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05302 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05227 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15844; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:39:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd015821; Wed Jan 28 17:39:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA24901; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:39:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801290039.RAA24901@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Graphical screen saver To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:39:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav" at Jan 28, 98 11:08:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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) You may want to revisit DejaNews. Several years ago, I was sent code from someone who did not want it distributed. The code ran AfterDark(tm) screensavers on FreeBSD 1.1.5. I still have a 1.1.5.1 box that runs the "Spock and Horta" screen saver if I boot it and leave it alone long enough... It seems to me that the format to use today for a "general shell" would be "whatever Windows 95 uses". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.