Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:29:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980107192538.449D-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199801070947.SAA10164@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >Before bundling and releasing this (or just plastering it into -current > >8) I'm looking for: > > > > - Testers. Naturally, I need people to find my bugs. 8) > > > > - A better image format. The DIB (.BMP) format is relatively easy to > > work with, but a 320x200x8 image runs the best part of 64k, which is > > slow to load from floppy and wastes valuable core. > > How about GIF? > > Kazu While the being able to mooch off the large BMP archives of splash screens it a laudable goal, I see no reason why we cannot support other formats. If anything at least one compressed format should be supported, .png, .jpeg, or .whatever. This way a compressed image could be more reasonable be packed into the installation floppy with little overhead. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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