[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] support for gnome-screensaver

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:27:55 +0200
Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:

> Olaf Mandel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > this patch adds support for the gnome-screensaver in
> > xscreensaver_heartbeat().
> 
> what about using DAPI?
> 
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/Project

Might be better than using dbus directly, but it
has the same inherent problem as dbus has: it uses
its own IPC system instead of using X11. This makes
it impossible to use clients running on other hosts
reliably. Not that this is much concern for MPlayer
as a video application needs a fast path to the graphics
card and thus has to run localy, but it is a big concern
for desktop enviroments, but somehow all those developers
think that clients always run localy.

Maybe i should get involved in freedesktop myself.

			Attila Kinali

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