[Splashy-devel] Translucent Text Area Patch.

[Otavio Salvador]

Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> writes:

> 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.

Yes, Looks like we need to do a new release ASAP. We had so many
things changed that it would be interesting to make our life easier to
deal with patches and merges.

>> 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.

Sure.

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