For those who haven’t seen them, the Really Slick Screensavers they really are some nice eye candy. A number of years ago, Tugrul Galatali ported them to Linux, primarily for use with XScreenSaver.
I’ve been pretty busy the past few months, so I was living without the RSS on my desktop since my move to FC4. I finally had some time to kill today, so I went about to get them up and running, and in RPM form. Since last time I installed them (version 0.7.4) Tugrul updated them to version 0.8.0. The spec file I used needed to be updated to match 0.8.0, to fix a small bug in the 0.8.0 build system, and account for differences in FC4. After a few moments of screwing around, I’ve got a spec file that works, a patch that works, and a built rpm.
This spec file is by no means perfect, as I’ve been learning how to build spec files on the fly, but it’ll work in most cases. I haven’t loaded it up with BuildRequires, but if you’ve got a modern desktop like GNOME or KDE installed and their devel packages, you should be in good shape.
I have to give credit to who originally put the spec file together, but I forget who that was. I’m fairly certain I got it from Tugrul’s page, but I can’t seem to find it again.
After a lot of searching I got closer to my goal of getting these to work on Fedora Core 5. So far, building the actual source works, but neither the current Gnome nor KDE screensaver control systems work with them. Just seeing if anyone else out there had an idea. I’m completely ticked myself at how many changes have been made in both Gnome and KDE since FC3 in the area of screensavers and customization, which is a definite drawback to getting adoption by people looking for eye candy.
Anyhow, if you have any ideas let me know if you would.