At Mendeley we have already done two hackdays. That’s quite interesting event: during a period of time (first one was on Friday until late night or overnight, second one Saturday and Sunday) we do whatever we want to do, it only needs to be a bit related with Mendeley.
On the last hack weekend I did a screensaver using Python, which one is integrated with KDE. Probably with some small changes would work in other systems.
In this entry I’ll cover the basic of the screensavers in KDE (how to integrate the new screensaver in KDE), and how KDE interacts with the screensaver. You should know a little bit of Python and Pygame, but if you don’t know you can still understand the code and do the same using other systems.
The code is in Git. Or if you want the quick example look here.
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