From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 18:59:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA15705 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA14949 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00377; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:15:10 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801080245.NAA00377@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Adrian Filipi-Martin cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:29:00 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 13:15:10 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. \\