General comments on KDE

[Renze de Ruiter]

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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:36, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:

> * Why do we not use xscreensaver for our screensavers? It should not be
> neccessary to lecture the people on this list about the benefits of Open
> Source, so I won't. But if we know the theory so well, why aren't we
> applying it?

I don't know about you, but my KDE 3.1 install does use xscreensaver along 
with the KDE native screensavers, and some standalone ones as well. My 
screensaver list is enormous.

> * The multimedia support sucks. kaboodle and noatun seem to choke on
> anything but an ogg/mp3 file. Video support is nonexistant. Or am I missing
> something?

Assuming you're using KDE 3.1, you're probably missing the xine libs, which 
arts uses for video.

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