From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 22:23:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08914 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@ppp-25-233.tidalwave.net [208.220.25.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08559 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA00852; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 01:18:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19980108011800.13651@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 01:18:00 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans To: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: <199801070947.SAA10164@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: ; from Adrian T. Filipi-Martin on Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 07:29:00PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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