From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 28 17:52:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16510 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:52:42 -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 RAA16320 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:52:17 -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 CAA12202; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 02:52:08 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 02:52:07 +0100 (MET) To: Terry Lambert Cc: joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphical screen saver References: <199801290039.RAA24901@usr08.primenet.com> 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: 29 Jan 1998 02:52:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:39:37 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > > If we're going to do start doing graphical screensavers, then I > > > suggest making the mechanism more general, rather than requiring a > It seems to me that the format to use today for a "general shell" > would be "whatever Windows 95 uses". Nope, that's not it. What I meant was a kind of template for graphical screensaver lkms, so that you only need to write the code to update the screen (logo_update in my logo saver). The rest never changes anyway. FWIW, "whatever Windows 95 uses" is rather sub-optimal. Each screensaver is simply a normal executable which is renamed to *.scr or something. In Windows 95 they simply added switches for the demo mode in the display settings menu. It doesn't even have to be a Windows program; "way back when" ISTR that somebody took one of Tran's demos (an early one) and hacked it to quit on mouse or keyboard activity (originally it only stopped when you pressed ESC), and released it as a Windows 3.1 screensaver. (I have a dream about moving to the US, getting a job at Microsoft, finding out where they keep the Windows source code, pinch it, slap a GPL on it and spread it around on WaReZ sites... then hack their web server and slip a fake press release onto it announcing their decision to release Windows 9x under GPL. A guy can dream, can't he?) -- * 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"