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Re: [suse-kde] Screensavers
- From: Ruud van Damme <ruud.vandamme@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:28:00 +0200
- Message-id: <200208292028.00912.ruud.vandamme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Op donderdag 29 augustus 2002 13:19, schreef Kevin McLauchlan:
> This is probably just a philosophical question...
>
> Why is it that Gnome seems to have so many more
> screen savers than KDE, and they are mostly much
> more eye-pleasing and interesting? I'm referring to
> what "comes with", rather than add-ons. Is it a philosophical
> choice by the KDE project to resemble Windows in that
> respect?
>
> Is it just that Gnome users, as a group, tend to be more
> in need of superficial amusement? <grin> Or is it
> inherently more difficult to code a nifty screensaver to
> work reliably with KDE?
>
> Just curious, really. I'm on vacation this week... :-)
>
> /kevin
Try xscreensaver and you will be surprised.
I only used it by hand, yet. Don't know if it can replace the default one.
Ruud
> This is probably just a philosophical question...
>
> Why is it that Gnome seems to have so many more
> screen savers than KDE, and they are mostly much
> more eye-pleasing and interesting? I'm referring to
> what "comes with", rather than add-ons. Is it a philosophical
> choice by the KDE project to resemble Windows in that
> respect?
>
> Is it just that Gnome users, as a group, tend to be more
> in need of superficial amusement? <grin> Or is it
> inherently more difficult to code a nifty screensaver to
> work reliably with KDE?
>
> Just curious, really. I'm on vacation this week... :-)
>
> /kevin
Try xscreensaver and you will be surprised.
I only used it by hand, yet. Don't know if it can replace the default one.
Ruud
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