** ** KSplash (MacLike) ** Copyright (c) 2001-2002, Flaming Sword Productions ** All Rights Reserved! ** KSplash/ML offers users a vastly configurable splash screen (login status window) for KDE. It is a binary replacement for the standard bin/ksplash program, AND WILL OVERWRITE THIS FILE WHEN INSTALLED. You have been warned. If you elect to install /ML, you will find that it supports a modern themeing engine. Using the new ThemeEngine code, you can develop themes which look any way you want! The standard /ML themes have been ported to the new ThemeEngine code, and are more easily customizable now than _ever_ _before_! If you, a developer, do not like the Themes I have provided, you are welcome to create your own ThemeEngines which present the login process in C++, and provide it as a source download for those who wish to use your dynamic splash screen. (I have written an example ThemeEngine illustrating this, called "ks2k," which you will find on the KSplash/ML website.) As an additional feature, distribution builders can make use of /ML's "Managed Mode" - an interactive control system for using KSplash/ML to display system startup messages. It is trivial to modify your system's startup scripts to boot into X (once all filesystems are scanned), and use KSplash/ML to display system startup information to the user, rather than the unix startup text, which most end-users consider to be confusing. Please see "ksecho" for some help on setting this up (or e-mail me). You may find KSplash/ML, and any contributed Themes and Engines, at its homepage: http://www.shadowcom.net/Software/ksplash-ml/ Brian Ledbetter <brian@shadowcom.net> ** $Id: README,v 1.7 2002/05/20 18:22:45 brian Exp $