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

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:30:38AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> 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

IMO the inherent problem is much deeper: that it comes from the
incompetent folks at freedesktop.org who know nothing but Windows and
Mac and simply want to rebuild their familiar bloated Windows/Mac
environment on top of Linux.

> 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.

Yes...

> Maybe i should get involved in freedesktop myself.

Good luck knocking some sense into them. However IMO they care more
about "l33t c0mp0z1t tr4nsp4r3nc33 l0l0l!!!!111oneoe!!" than making a
system that actually works correctly according to the design and
philosophy of Unix and X, so expect a tough time...

Rich