On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 10:56 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > Lukas Sabota wrote: > > Frank, > > Your usplash is really nice; it's probably the best one I've seen. The > > rounded edges are a bunch better idea than just using black. I for one > > would like to see the in dapper. > > However, the limitations of usplash show. The edges of the Ubuntu icon > > seem a bit jagged. Could someone please explain to me why there are > > limitations to usplash, and what other distributions use to make their > > bootsplashes high-res? > > > > God bless, > > Lukas > > > > > > > They use a different splash screen system called "Bootsplash", which is > a Kernel Patch. This system uses a high-res framebuffer. But, because > our developers want Usplash to work on as many systems as possible, and > high-res framebuffers don't work very good on older and other systems, > we only use a 16 color VGA framebuffer. > > Viper550
16 colors? Didn't the windows 98 boot screen have even more than that? God bless, Lukas -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
