On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 06:11, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > http://asisaid.com/images/mdkback.jpg > > Well... you could tell whether you'd got to the splash by how bright the > wall facing the screen was. (-:
Indeed. Tim, any chance of making the "content" bit a bit smaller, and having it darker (down to black on the edges) on the outside? > > We couldn't really use Ed Hurst's SuSE-chameleon-eating-MSN-butterfly as > a splash here, but maybe we could do a Mandrake penguin drawing his > wand back from the fading outline of an MS-Windows logo? I think it may be best to keep that kind of artwork out the distro, from a professionalism point of view, MS doesn't have a splash screen saying "GPL is IP theft" or "Better UNIX than UNIX" (even though they might have similar things in their ads). IMHO, the Windows XP/Win2k3 splash stuff is quite nice, a dark bakckground with bright graphics in the center looks quite good. With the current penguin on the console, I was wondering if it's feasible to have usage hints on it, say on the right in subtly-coloured text, stuff like: Root only: Setup X: XFdrake Setup : drakxconf User: GUI : startx Edit : nano Files: mc I guess /etc/issue may be a better mechanism, but I still think "user dumped in console login without X" hasn't been solved, and was a big issue for 9.1 ... Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
