roadmap

Road Map

Splashy-0.4.0

[NOT STARTED] GL support
[NOT STARTED] Accessibility support (audio) integrate flite/festival and do voice synthesis: Progress is now at 40%
[NOT STARTED] support to set images on TTYs
[NOT STARTED] support animations (themes) for events like fsck
[NOT STARTED] support for multi-vector progressbars (circular progressbars for example)

Splashy-0.3.0

[WORKING] Handle Fsck running (show progress, surpassing bootsplash)
[DONE] Handle prompts (crypt*)
[DONE] Use schemas to validate theme files
[DONE] International support
[DONE] Graphical configuration utility (gsplashy/qsplashy)

Splashy-0.2.0

[DONE] Toggle between console and Splashy
[DONE] Display console text above splashy on verbose
[DONE] Automatic switch into verbose mode when console prompts
[DEFERRED] ~~Allow TTY background to be set permanently~~

Splashy-0.1.8

[DONE] initrd/initramfs support
[DONE] Animations (gif) support
[DONE] Fade effects
[DONE] Support reverse progress
[DONE] Configurable border colour
[DONE] Reduce dependencies to bare minimum

Splashy-0.1.7 (2006-02-06)

[DONE] Support running splashy right after init
[DONE] Smart progress calculation
[DONE] X detection on exit
[DONE] Static linking support
[DONE] Alternative communication through signals support
[DONE] Full LSB support

Splashy-0.1.6 (2005-12-28)

[DONE] Shutdown support
[DONE] Multiple themes support
[DONE] Theme creator command
[DONE] Smooth progressbar movement
[DONE] Progressbar border removal support
[DONE] Text scroll support
[DONE] Agree an official Splashy logo
[DONE] XML format in configuration files
[DONE] Documentation through man pages
[DONE] LSB support
[DONE] “Already running” detection
[DONE] Console switching code rewrite

Splashy-0.1.5 (2005-06-16)

[DONE] Valid video mode detection

Splashy-0.1.4 (2005-06-07)

[DONE] Support reverse progress
[DONE] Complete documentation
[DONE] /dev/vcs1 read/regex support

Splashy-0.1.3 (2005-05-18)

[DONE] Debian support clean-up

Splashy-0.1.2 (2005-05-16)

[DONE] Clean compilation
[DONE] Full Debian support

Splashy-0.1.1 (2005-05-13)

[DONE] Communication fifo socket interface
[DONE] Server-client approach
[DEFERRED] ~~Support reverse progress~~

[DONE] Better starting and ending process

[DONE] Rewrite keyboard listening interface

[DONE] Match all the C++ code functionalities in C

Splashy-0.1.0 (2005-04-21)

[DONE] Require zero kernel patches/full functionality in user-space
[DONE] Progressbar support
[DONE] Verbose mode (with F2/ESC keys)
[DONE] Configuration file in xml
[DONE] Cope with any video-mode resolution/size (640×480 - 1600×900)
[DONE] Cope with 8, 16, and 24 bit framebuffers (surpassing bootsplash)
[DONE] Keep additional boot time low
[DONE] Fallback to a console in all failure cases
[DONE] Detect available VESA modes and check for X on i386/amd64
[DONE] UTF-8 text support

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