Eduard Bloch (edi@gmx.de) said: > Well, if we extend the init scripts in a wise way, we could make use of > fancy graphics without breaking much stuff. Return to my first proposal: > we define escape sequences to set a mark on certain events. Then we hack > init to show the user (eg. on framebuffer console) some fancy graphics > bar (eg. using FB toolkits), somethung like the current KDE/Gnome splash > (status) screens. Okay, this would need a bit more work, and someone > (eventually me) should make a good proposal to standadize this things. Escape sequences, parsing output, and hacking init? Sounds like a kludge to me. See the LSB specifications on system init, it is substantially less hackish IMO. The url (again) is: http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.0.0/gLSB/sysinit.html -- Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey
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