graphics.diff seems broken

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:45:08PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:27:21PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >=20
> > How about that grub splashimage deb? I've got some good amount of
> > splashimages already submitted with GPL licenses given. I've been busy
> > since I moved to a new house but hopefully after this weekend I'll be
> > ready to start working again on projects.
>=20
> I would suggest having a separate package (e.g, grub-splashimages) for
> providing a collection of images in it.
>
> Adding a single image to grub increases notably the package size, and this
> is probably not what most users want.

Agreed, although hey RH/fedora does it for eyecandy and people don't compla=
in.

> Luis, would you like to prepare such a package will all your images? Once=
 it
> is in the archive, we can get grub to Recommend/Suggest it.

Sure thing. I'd love to.

> > Which image were you guys thinking of using as default?
>=20
> Unless we find a way to activate this feature without risking to break the
> installed bootloader, I think making image-less the default is the safest.

Hmm, well RH/Fedora/SuSe seem to use the same patch and they're fine. I
don't see why we shouldn't. Of course, if we do integrate an image and
then run into problems -- then its our bug eeh? :)

Anyway -- I've replied to all the folks who e-mailed me splashimages
asking them to resend them with a license *cough GPL*. In addition,
I've added this section on my splashimage howto on information regarding
people wanting to submit a splashimage to me:

-----------
Include a License that will allow me to redistribute it. I like the GPL
;). Fortuntely the xpm file format accept C99 comments, so you can just
edit the file with your favorite editor (vim, emacs) and add some text
like the following:

/*=20
* Copyright 2004 Your Name
*=20
* This xpm file image is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2=20
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This xpm file image is distributed in the hope that it will be
* useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
* of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
* the GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General
* Public License along with this image; if not, write to the Free
* Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
* MA  02111-1307  USA
*/
------------

I hope this suffices for our purposes, if not please advise.

Oh yeah -- regarding integrating the graphics patch into grub 0.9x -- I
don't think it'll happen, unless that's the final answer I got from
Okuji when I poked him about it before while advocating splashimage
support. He said he'd start work for graphic support until 2.0 (PUPA).

	Luis

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