Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard Splash Screen? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990428234916.8896B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3726307D.15CE9D04@newsguy.com>
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I like that one with the red haze and the daemon silhouette. Makes for both a spiffy splash screen, a great screen saver, and a nice X desktop at any resolution. And slightly before I load up the StarOffice presentation package to do a presentation, I get the gleefully answer the question "Why is there a devil on your wallpaper?" :). I also like the "wow, that's UNIX thing" after they see me log into kdm, onto a desktop using kfm as a file manager and window maker as the window manager (they seem to interoperate nicely). And with StarOffice 5, the shock value is great :-). BTW, I followed the directions for SO5 on freebsdrocks, but there are some errors. Anyone know who I email about this? (like some command/directory names are wrong, et al). But splash screens are great, as they hide a lot of nasty complexity that most people don't need or want to look at. There's a slight blip in between the end of the splash screen and the beginning of kdm. Anyone have any thoughts on how to hide that? Robert On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Anyone here would vote on any of the currently available art for a > default boot splash screen? "Real Hackers don't use splash screens" > votes also apply. :-) > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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