From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 16:29:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA29364 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA29342 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from mail.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa15921; 7 Jan 98 19:29 EST Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.18]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01484; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:29:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA00623; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:29:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:29:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... In-Reply-To: <199801070947.SAA10164@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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/