Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 01:18:00 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org> To: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <19980108011800.13651@wakky.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980107192538.449D-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>; from Adrian T. Filipi-Martin on Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 07:29:00PM -0500 References: <199801070947.SAA10164@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980107192538.449D-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 07:29:00PM -0500, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: [discussing splash image formats] > > 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. I've been following this discussion, and I have an idea: gzipped BMPs. I mean, gzip is a format we already use a lot, and it's not too terribly hard to decode (easier than PNG, I would assume)...If I'm missing something, please tell me. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code
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