KGLWaterSaver - put your desktop under water

- Watereffects for your Desktop -

[deutsch]

now also available for KDE-4!

Started in Aug. 2004. Current version: V0.7 (2010-02-21)

Screensaver for: KDE using OpenGL for visual effects.
Current developers: S. Baur (founder)

Supported platforms:

Linux, ... probably even more KDE/OpenGL compatible platforms (let me know if you get it running on a system that is not mentioned here)

Features:

  • Choose between Images or the current Desktop to "sink under water"
  • Various effects: Whirl, Bubble, Rain
  • ...

Screenshots:

Probably it's best to look at some screenshots, which usually give the best impression about the current status:
Version v0.5 (linux) kde-3
KDevelop sunken...
Settings dialog

TODOs:

Graphics:
  • more effects
Additional:
  • ... still much work to do...

Download:

KDE-4 Version:
  • Binaries
    Currently there are no prebuild binaries available. contact me if you are interested in a binary version and can't build it yourself
  • Gentoo ebuild
    (for our gentoo users :)
    extract kwatersaver4-ebuild.tar.bz2 to the local portage-overlay (/usr/local/portage). Happy emerge'ing!
  • Sources
    The sources contain a project file for kdevelop4. And of course the usual cmake files to build with gcc.
    (kwatersaver4-0.7.tar.bz2)
    older versions: kwatersaver4-0.6.tar.bz2
    See also: Kde-Apps.org
KDE-3 Version:
  • Binaries
    Mandrake 10.0 RPM: kglwatersaver-0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm (by Victor Fernandez )
    SuSE 9.2 RPM: kglwatersaver-0.6-1.i686.rpm
    SuSE 9.3 x86_64 (KDE 3.4.2) RPM: kglwatersaver-0.6-1.x86_64.rpm
    (SuSE RPMs by Peter Schmeichel )

    Currently there are no more prebuild binaries available. contact me if you are interested in a binary version and can't build it yourself
  • Gentoo ebuild
    (for our gentoo users :)
    extract kglwatersaver-0.6-ebuild.tar.gz to the local portage-overlay (/usr/local/portage). Happy emerge'ing!
  • Sources
    The sources contain a project file for kdevelop3. And of course the usual Makefile to build with gcc.
    (kglwatersaver-0.6.tar.bz2)
    See also: Kde-Apps.org
    Old versions:
    (kglwatersaver-0.5.tar.bz2)

Contact:

If you want to contribute to this project or comment on it, simply contact me at kwatersaver !