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Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit
In-Reply-To: <199705131918.MAA10641@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 13, 97 12:18:59 pm"
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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In reply to Terry Lambert who wrote:
> >"Those two ideas suck, but my impossible fantasy would be just wonderful". :)
> > That is, don't make it stick after booting. (bad idea number one)
> > Also, don't make it come back as a screen saver. (bad idea number two)
> > Reason: It should be something to have there while booting, like a nice
> > "Please wait while I boot thing thing" text. After you've booted, it wont fit.
> > A screensaver (as a suggested later in my mail) should use a picture of its
> > own (which COULD be the same, if you had a fitting boot picture).
> > Making it dissapear after botting is done, and then never come back is not
> > impossible at all.
> 
> Actually, if the intent is to make the machine "look pretty", then
> covering up the boot crap is only half the battle.  The other half
> is a graphical login.

AHH!!, now I can add my bitmap console code then ??
(and no sorry, no ddx this time either)
>
> Barring a graphical login, you're back to being ugly again when the
> login pops up.

Nothing, except maybe kernel space, is barring a graphical login....

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