From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 28 17:51:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16047 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15803 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (newip21.wcc.net [206.104.247.21]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA11991; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:46:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA03772; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:49:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:49:26 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801290149.TAA03772@detlev.UUCP> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Subject: Re: Graphical screen saver From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199801280252.UAA08226@detlev.UUCP> 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) That was mine. I've got the basic shell ready, and am now in refinement. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped