Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 13:15:10 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <199801080245.NAA00377@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:29:00 CDT." <Pine.SOL.3.96.980107192538.449D-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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> 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. It appears to be pretty straightforward to support using a gzipped image, which gives us the best of both worlds. Kzip first though. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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