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

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:54:20 +0200
Piotr Kaczuba <pepe at attika.ath.cx> wrote:


> A few months ago I posted a patch which used the dbus gnome screensaver
> API and it still didn't get accepted. The reason was something like: "If
> we accept this, then we we'll have to accept screensaver patches for all
> the other DEs and WMs as well, we better wait for something generic that
> handles them all." 

Actually not true. This was a major concern, but the patch
was mostly forgotten than rejected.

But as former x11 maintainer, i can really feel the pain of
maintainig all the screensaver disabling code. IMHO desktop
enviroment guys are the last one who should define any interface,
no matter whether it's an API or some other form of communication
like dbus or whatever.

			Attila Kinali

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