From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 08:11:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC6B16A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:11:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv02.webonaut.com (kirk.webonaut.com [212.41.243.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE36943D39 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from klammer@webonaut.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sv02.webonaut.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3802E7642E; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:10:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from sv02.webonaut.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sv02.webonaut.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27305-02; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:10:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from webonaut.com (sisko.webonaut.com [212.41.243.28]) by sv02.webonaut.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686187642C; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:10:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FFD8115.1040904@webonaut.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:11:01 +0100 From: Franz Klammer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <20031228032922.70d73f33.samy@kerneled.com> <3FF566F5.3000508@webonaut.com> <20040102142110.0d0c9646@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <3FF574D5.2020202@webonaut.com> <20040102151009.1b1e24aa@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <3FF590DC.80502@webonaut.com> <20040102165420.3e95fd04@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <3FF5A89E.6000809@webonaut.com> <1073064347.779.6.camel@gyros> <3FF5B2DC.4020306@webonaut.com> <1073072153.779.26.camel@gyros> <3FF5CC79.6030102@webonaut.com> <20040103122917.19ded042@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <3FF7E170.5010608@webonaut.com> <20040104165526.71348881@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20040105130852.4f9381bd@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <1073440985.41447.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3FFBD7BD.1030203@webonaut.com> <1073496351.765.2.camel@gyros> <20040107183751.1cbe725e@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <3FFCA619.30204@webonaut.com> <20040108161405.4fdb36b8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20040108161405.4fdb36b8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at webonaut.com cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New GNOME splash screen X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:11:06 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: >On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 01:36:41 +0100 >Franz Klammer wrote: > > > >>>I think it's time for a "random splash screen"-feature... else we won't >>>be able to show every good one. And you know what "they" say about >>>bikesheds. :-) >>> >>> >>why you have written this :-( >>now i can't go away from my pc until i have a solution ... >> >> > >Do you want some more ideas? :-) > > > better not! ;-) >>and now exists: splash-set >> >>download at: http://webonaut.com/temp/splash/files/ >> >>it accepts the parameter "--random" to set a random image. >>called without parameter it start in the gui-mode. >> >> > >Wow! I haven't looked at it, but "Nice work!". > > > thanks! >>default the splash screens are searched in /usr/X11....../splash/* >>if you want to use a different directory it can be changed by >>editing flash_files_dir in the source. >> >>it's a quick hack or version 0.1-alpha ;-) but it works. >> >> > >Can we expect a command line option instead of modifying flash_files_dir >in v0.2? What about a port? Can we have a RUN_DEPENDS upon it in >gnome-session? And some nice splash screens by default?... ok, I'll shut >up now. :-) > > > oh, yes! i have some ideas i like to implement/do: - configuration dialog that stores the config in gconf - gnome-session support (change splash on startup for the next session) - better gui - better random code - bundled with some splash-screens? - also a port after a beta is released - ...???... (to be defined ;-)) but there a much to learn for me. before i stated this little program i didn't know how to load and scale an image. Franz. ps: about your other question: i didn't have an specific idea what header to use on a stable splash - maybe somthing nature-like at the gnome site, or ...? >Bye, >Alexander. > > >