Re: Usplash Maker
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:37 pm
It's the user-friendliness that counts. Sometimes I find myself in the terminal doing something wondering why nobody has made a GUI for it yet. I'm definitely not afraid of the terminal and actually like it alot, but I'm of the belief that linux should be at a point where the user(basic or guru) should only need to go into the terminal for something obscure or that the terminal is required. krusader is the first app I always install after a fresh OS install.
Anyways, now I'm going to go back and hide in my KDE cave, try to wash the GNOME from my body, and focus on squashing bugs:
*)reconstructor hardy squashfs-lzma nightmare / busybox nightmare
*)why reconstructor usplash support is broken(see it does relate to this in a way)
*)my parallax usplash(It is veeeeery nice, although I can't test it in initramfs without focusing on problem above)
*)...and last but not least, any other low-end non-gui code for the the usplash maker.
Code Update: I do have some basic imagemagick code for creating a preview(static, non-moving) by using the -composite switch. Unless Thee is thinking of an animated type of preview, I was just thinking of a preview button that takes info and makes a preview of it.
Basic work on the script to dynamically build the C file. I'm definitely thinking of adding a config.h with DEFINES such as u-foka did for his kubuntu3d usplash. See http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=75385 . This will help fix the resolution bug and hopefully cut down on coding because less C code will have to be generated dynamically.