Is there any good reason why the GL hacks are written in 1992 OpenGL 1.0? I suppose performance doesn't matter, but these are real anachronisms. I guess I'm used to OpenGL-ES where half of the functions you use no longer exist.

I'm sorry I didn't submit this earlier, but here is a patch to fix a t-junction problem in voronoi ( http://www.firebomb-w3c.org/lj/voronoi-5.08-fix.patch ). The cone didn't close because you were relying on (cos, sin) of "faces * (2 * PI / faces)" to be (1,0) which it may not be. Sometimes I'd get a one pixel tall horizontal glitch from the center of a sector to it's right edge.

I do really enjoy xscreensaver, I particularly enjoy the new screensaver Hypnowheel.

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I've never even heard of OpenGL-ES, and I have no reason to believe that I've ever seen a machine capable of running it. Also, don't fix what ain't broke. That's the same reason I haven't re-implemented them all in PHP or Ruby or some such nonsense that the kids are all a-flutter over today.

Anyway, it's OpenGL 1.1, not 1.0. I remember the day I was finally able to assume the existence of glBindTexture().

Oh wait, is OpenGL-ES the bullshit hack that iPhone runs? Fuck that noise.

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I wouldn't reimplement old hacks. But, I wouldn't write a new OpenGL app using immediate mode either (glDrawArrays and glDrawElements are from OpenGL 1.1).

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A couple of comments from a happy user:

1. I'll have to remove sonar from my list of display modes now -- the OpenGL savers all seem to crash Linux machines with ATI cards. You can ssh in from another box and kill the screensaver, but that's not always easy/convenient. I know this is an ATI driver issue, and shouldn't affect your decisions for xscreensaver, but I thought I'd mention it.

2. Why remove the old screen savers? Yes, some of them suck, but some of them don't. Besides, that's very subjective. I use flag, lmorph and worm, for example. And judging by the number of people in the office that use glforestfire, I'd say that's one of the more popular choices. Is there work that needs to be done to keep them up to date with the latest xscreensaver, or are you just removing clutter?

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Maybe put the old ones in an extras/contrib/retired file? Personally, I still have vines in rotation.

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I like this idea as well. Maybe just include a note saying you won't update them so if any core changes or whatever else somehow break them, people can send patches if they want? (Not that I'm missing glforestfire either.)

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I don't hate it, and I don't run it ironically.

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Install the pure-software GL drivers. In Debian Etch it's the libgl1-mesa-swx11 package, and it's something similar in Ubuntu. Then your choice of video card will have nothing to do with whether your machine crashes.

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hard, couldn't even sh in:-(

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You killed glforestfire you bastard! It's the only saver I use!

It's my favorite animation of sprinkling fire-like 3D triangles in a landscape filled with trees.

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On my GMA 950 powered MacBook (running 10.5.6), Sonar has glitches.

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G4 PowerBook (ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, OS X 10.5.6): different glitches with Sonar

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Finally looking at this, and I can't reproduce it, or spot the problem by reading the code...

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Exact same glitches here on a GMA 950-powered Macbook running 10.4.11.

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Finally looking at this, and I can't reproduce it, or spot the problem by reading the code...

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your userpic makes me want to love you

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Finally looking at this, and I can't reproduce it, or spot the problem by reading the code...

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You kept Noseguy?

A website bug: The changelog page says "download" in the title.

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Can I read my mail with it yet?

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I love the new jigsaw.

Thanks!

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Yes! Thank you!

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Tasty.

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I just discovered this..

http://code.google.com/p/surveillancesaver/

http://i.document.m05.de/?p=459

My own hacking skills are nowhere near up to it, but I'm sure this would make a fantastic addition to any future XScreenSaver release. Would the Creative Commons License prohibit this?

Sorry I'm such a noob. I just had to mention it. I'd love to see this running on my Linux box.

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I am a lazy noob. With a little more digging I just found this:

http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/cctv/

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