[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [MP] [PATCH] Add support for GNOME screensaver

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 16:36 schrieb Piotr Kaczuba:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:04:37PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 15:50 +0200, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> > > I've wrote a patch to support GNOME screensaver in MPlayer, i.e. to
> > > disable it when playing a movie and reenabling it after that.
> >
> > Does this have any advantages over disabling the screensaver with
> > common X calls? Does the GNOME screensaver not respect those?
>
> [...]
>
> GNOME screensaver provides an API of its own for controlling it via DBUS
> messages. I don't know, it can be done with common X calls, but IMHO
> sending a message to the screensaver via DBUS is very clear and simple.

So you want to introduce special cases for KDE, Gnome, XFCE, Windowmaker, 
CDE,...?