Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:35:21 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: f-q questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... Message-ID: <433A1D89.1070605@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <078C9627-7C0C-4F0E-9903-2726334210CE@shire.net> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEHHFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1127852545.655.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <4339B972.1070307@daleco.biz> <200509280200.10933.danny@ricin.com> <078C9627-7C0C-4F0E-9903-2726334210CE@shire.net>
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: > >> >> But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't >> see any >> "progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think >> that the >> system is stalled. It's my understanding that something like a >> "progress" bar >> like WinXP has (it doesn't need to show progress, just that >> something's going >> on behind the splash) would be very hard if not impossible to add. But >> perhaps it is or can be made possible to have a gif or a bitmap in >> which a >> partial clipping changes every second or so (some left-to-right-and- >> back >> moving thingie). > > > > You can do what Mac OS X does under Tiger -- it uses a canned > progress bar based > on timing done from previous boots. They time how long the boot > process is where > they want the progress bar and then put up a canned one that moves > and lists what > it is doing, but that list is just timed for the average boot time > and is not actually > synced to show the correct actions in the boot as they happen. (At > least that was > how it was explained in forum I am on) > > Chad In light of this hopefully-soon-to-be-dead thread's title and general course of discussion, we should probably just have a big two-frame animated GIF of Bill (whichever one you want) that alternately faces left and right with horns one direction and a halo the other. ;-) Give my regards to /dev/null, as I'll give your replies likewise, Kevin Kinsey
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