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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 06:47:22 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit
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Michael Smith:
 |Randall Hopper stands accused of saying:
 |>      I'd leave it enabled in my kernel with a nifty picture if it would
 |> auto-dismiss itself when booting gets to the syscons login prompt.
 |
 |Hmm, I don't actually think it should disappear with the login prompt;
 |it should stay there being pretty if the system isn't being dinked with.
 |
 |Currently, I am leaning towards having it disappear on any keypress.

     Hmmm, not sure I understand where you're coming from.  If you're
sitting at the text login prompt, why would you want the splash page to
stay up?

     Seems to me that the purpose of a splash is to hide all the start-up
messages, and give the user something cool to look at that lets them know
the machine's not locked up.

     I guess it'd be the same deal if one had xdm installed.  Splash page
should stay up until the xdm login pops up.

 |There's some provision for palette rotation already; the real problem is
 |just arranging for the rotation on a useful basis - the console driver

     Sounds good.  How does one make use of it?  A quick scan of the
patched syscons.c doesn't reveal it to me.  I see where the palette is
loaded from the BMP and where its dumped to the VGA, but I don't find any
mention of the palette rotation (except in a comment).

Randall