[Splashy-devel] Translucent Text Area Patch.

[Luis M]

On 3/22/06, Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> wrote:
> Luis M wrote:
> > Now i only need to figure out how to scroll text and put the console
> > text there...
>
> I've always wondered why that functionality is requested, when one can
> just hit Escape to get all the messages they may or may not want. Still,
> having a little single-line text area like this is useful. It makes our
> boot up process very nice with the occasional message.

I agree. But I guess people just want to peek into why the boot
process is taking long and then go back to enjoying their own
themes/images. F2 toggling the textbox would give them that (at a
price: memory wasted! but hey, this is what is all about: wasting idle
resources).

I wonder if splashy would make sense when the Linux kernel boots in 4
seconds (as it's planned). Would we ever get there?

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