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    A good aquarium screensaver for Linux...

    Hi all...

    It came to my my mind earlier today that, to my knowledge, Linux does not have a highly detailed tropical fish aquarium screensaver! There is Atlantis, which I use on my laptop, but it only covers sharks and whales and is very basic in design. I also found a program called "Sherman's Aquarium," which is cartoonish.

    I personally would like to end the monopoly that Windows has on this particular software, too!

    I wonder if we could get a project going that would develop such a screensaver for Linux that would easily rival any program written for Windows? I also thought about writing e-mails to some of the companies who make this software, including Formosoft, and see if they wouldn't be willing to write an identical version for Linux. :-)

    Here is one that I like in particular...

    What do you guys think?

    Regards...
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    There was a screensaver that is commercial that was an absolutely stunning representation of an aquarium.

    It was designed for windows but the guy who originally did "Klikit" Linux had it somehow ported to Linux and it was going to be "an original offering" with the distro.

    Of course any other distro could also get it, but Kiliit would have been the first in terms of bragging rights and to differentiate it.

    I don't remember the name of the screensaver company, but what you saw was "an aquarium" period, it was a stunning thing.

    woodsmoke
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      #3
      I am astonished that asciiquarium isn't good enough for you!

      I thought I had bookmarked a thread on compiling an aquarium / ocean screensaver - either here or at linuxquestions.org - but I've been unable to find it.
      I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
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        #4
        Originally posted by SecretCode View Post
        I thought I had bookmarked a thread on compiling an aquarium / ocean screensaver - either here or at linuxquestions.org - but I've been unable to find it.
        Would this be it?
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          #5
          Impossible! How did you find that?

          eta: "Underwater" ... I didn't search on that keyword! Aquarium, ocean, sea, fish ... just not underwater.
          Last edited by SecretCode; Mar 16, 2012, 01:18 PM.
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            I remembered where it was when I posted the installation instructions.
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              #7
              Got it now, it was "Dream Aquarium" and ran under Wine.

              I guess that I didn't really understand how well Wine was integrated into Klikit.

              The present review at the typical "download" places has it that one can set it up and the number of fish etc. are limited. The full price is 13 bucks USD.

              So...it was, and I guess is, a spectacular screensaver but it had not been "ported" to Linux.

              sorry

              woodsmoke
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                #8
                Originally posted by DoYouKubuntu View Post
                Would this be it?
                Hi DYK...

                Thank you for your link. That is definitely a step in the right direction, I downloaded the .deb just a couple minutes ago. I might give it a shot. :-)

                EDIT: Well, I gave it a shot but the screensaver needs a dependency called libkdecore5 that I tried to fulfill with the other requirements until I got to "libqt4-dbus," which wouldn't install because GDebi said it would break something else. Oh, well. :-(

                @SecretCode: I hadn't even heard of that one but it's...um...definitely unique.

                @Woodsmoke: No problem, I'm glad you were able to get it to run under wine. :-)

                Any thoughts on my idea?

                Regards...
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                  I think it would be a great idea.

                  The nominal ocean screensaver is great except for that stoopid dolphin that keeps running around at such an insane speed.

                  For the life of me I really can't understand why the writer didn't either run him slow or allow the speed to be changed or just delete the thing. But the dolphin is definitely off-putting, to me at least.

                  And I do have the compiled ocean screensaver and it is a LOT better than the nominal one, Atlantis, but a "fish tank" would probably be of more interest to a lot of folks.

                  woodsmoke
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                    #10
                    @ardvark: asciiquarium is shipped with Kubuntu! Check your screensavers settings module!
                    I've used it for a while. Always makes me chuckle.
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                      #11
                      Originally posted by SecretCode View Post
                      @ardvark: asciiquarium is shipped with Kubuntu! Check your screensavers settings module!
                      I've used it for a while. Always makes me chuckle.
                      Hi SC...

                      Thanks but I don't think it comes with Ubuntu 10,04, or at least I didn't see it, anyway. :-)

                      Regards...
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                        UPDATE: I went ahead and e-mailed some of the companies who created the screensavers featured here and asked them if they would consider writing identical copies for Ubuntu. While I don't expect a groundswell of support, I thought it would help put a bug in their ear that their software, run natively, would be appreciated by those who run Linux. :-)

                        Regards...
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                          #13
                          ok, i'll expose my iggernance of all things Linuxy....

                          I've seen posts where people asked if a windblows thing was able to be "compiled" and run under Linux...

                          I imagine with all those little fishies running around it would be hard to get them piled into a small group, but...could it be?

                          And if it was "compilable", maybe work out a financial thing with them?

                          woodjustexposin'myiggernancesmoke
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                            #14
                            Piling all the fishies into a group is something you will have to work on by yourself

                            Compiling the existing Windows code to run on Kubuntu is
                            (a) dead easy, because we're talking Intel 80x86-based architecture (x86 or amd64) so the machine instructions are the same
                            and
                            (b) impossible, because the code will in reality use several things that differ dramatically between Windows and Linux, and between different widget toolkits on Linux:
                            If it's in C/C++/Java, the code itself should compile without too much work - if it's in C# (.NET) one would need to include Mono. (Other languages like Perl, Python, etc are unlikely but not impossible.)
                            It will almost certainly make extensive use of windows graphics libraries (not so much widgets as this is not a classic UI case) and these would require extensive translation to use OpenGL or something on Linux.
                            It probably relies on lots of graphics performance optimisations which would also be OS-specific.
                            It might also have lots of hooks into the screensaver system libraries on windows, which would need to be translated to use xscreensaver or the gnome or kde equivalents.

                            The biggest problem, though, will be if the developers don't know what they have to do and will just refuse to work on it - and refuse to open their source so that other people can do this translation (which they are quite entitled to do).
                            I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
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                              #15
                              Use asciiquarium on all my systems, including MS Windows. Yes, beleive it or not, they have a port to MS Windows for that one.
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