On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: >> But changing it to something else is certainly possible: I did not detect >> consensus on the xpert list of what to change it to, however. > >I think if there were: > >1) support for setting the root window to a solid color on startup via a >command-line option (and possibly via an XF86Config file flag) > >and > >2) some borrowing of the Xsun splash screen code along with instructions >on how to make your X server use a given image file > >...most people would be pretty happy. Of course, 2) is pretty >gratuitous if you can just use 1) to set the root window to a solid >color like black or white, and then let the client side worry about >splash screens. I mention 2) only because Xsun users have been spoiled >by it. > >I don't know how color specification would be done. If I recall >correctly all of X's fancy colorspace stuff is on the client side. >(CMS?)
Both of these ideas sound fantastic. I myself have considered such, but haven't had time to play with it. I whipped up the patch in my previous mail many months ago, and added it to our development builds. I got back several bug reports and complaints from people who use it as their default desktop (believe it or not) and now had a black desktop which they found horrible. I disabled the patch in my builds with a "come back to this again later" thought. It'd be great to have the extensions listed above as both commandline options and config file options. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
