[Splashy-devel] Translucent Text Area Patch.

[Pat Suwalski]

Luis M wrote:
> Keep the patching coming none-the-less. Perhaps later you will have
> time to re-sync and we will try our best not to do major changes to
> the code (in svn) without a previous consensus from vendors using
> splashy (like is your case -- Xandros, otavio's custom distro, demarc
> security solutions, and some others that skip my mind now).

I suspect we will be bumping the version in and around early May.

> This should definitely encourage others to do the same, and  can focus
> in getting other things that matter as well (feature requests, bugs,
> and maintaining the IRC community alive).

Well, all of this stuff is pretty fun, pushing userspace right up the
stack. The second line in our initrd on the CDROM is to start splashy
and start printing anti-aliased text really early in the boot. I think
that's impressive.

--Pat