2008/3/13, dongiovanni@archlinux.de <dongiovanni@archlinux.de>:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, <dongiovanni@archlinux.de> 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