> 2008/3/13, dongiovanni@xxxxxxxxxxxx <dongiovanni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, <dongiovanni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hallo, >> >> >> >> Currently I'm maintaining splashy and fbsplash. Some time ago there >> was >> >> a >> >> discussion of integration of the splash hooks in the initscripts in >> >> [core]. >> >> Is there something planed? It would reduce problems for some less >> >> experienced users. >> > >> > Actually, anyone can do it and you don't even need to overwrite the >> > initscripts package. The initscripts in testing will load functions >> > from /etc/rc.d/functions.d/*. Due to the way shell scripts work, if I >> > redefine a function, it overwrites it. >> > >> > This way, one can simply create a functions.d/ file that overrides >> the >> > standard stat_* functions to call splash related functions. No need >> to >> > additions to the initscripts package, it's all there for ya. >> > >> > >> >> >> I must have missed that ;) Thanks... I hope I will get a working >> solution >> on that soon! > > Actually, I was planning to steal fbsplash and splashy and put them in > community ;-) > but didn't have much time recently to actually do this. :-( > In addition I want to do a couple of small changes to initscripts that > will not affect non-splashed systems at all, but will just provide > more places to hook something via functions.d > Nice! This would make the scripts for fbsplash/splashy much easier to write. It makes no sense to start porting them to the functions.d system right now, right? If I can help you writing new scripts, when you will take fbsplash, let me know. dongiovanni
