SuSE Ksplash?

**Corvair** · 12-02-2005

I've seen screenies of the new SuSE 10 KDE splash screen, is there anyway we can have a splash screen like that on non-SuSE systems? I'm running KDE 3.5 on Ubuntu Breezy.

**bigtomrodney** · 12-02-2005

It can be easily extracted from a running system and tarred for redployment. There are some similar splashes on kde-look. If you're wondering about the specifics of the splash, for instance the fullscreen factor and the animation, you may want to have a look at the redmond splash. It is basically an XP lookalike, but more importantly the 'redmond' engine it uses is I believe what is used in the Suse splash.

**Corvair** · 12-02-2005

According to a screenshot, it is labelled as suse-ksplashx. I'm starting to think ksplashx is an actual engine. Is the SuSE LiveCD compressed like Knoppix? If it isin't, I think I have an idea, get the files off the LiveCD!

edit: I found the KDEbase package for SuSE 10, and I'm extracting it to look at the files.

edit again: FOUND IT!!!
Well, it's got an intresting theme.rc:

Code:

&#91;KSplash Theme&#58; ksplashx-suse&#93;
Name = SUSE
Description = SUSE Splash Screen
Version = 1.0

A folder full of images named 1600x1200, containing images and this description.txt:

Code:

IMAGE 1 0 0 back.png
ANIM 1 486 442 37 anim.png 100
IMAGE 2 930 375 kmenu_b.png
IMAGE 3 930 515 desktop_b.png
IMAGE 4 930 655 conf_b.png
WAIT_STATE 3
IMAGE 4 930 655 conf.png
WAIT_STATE 5
IMAGE 3 930 515 desktop.png
WAIT_STATE 7
IMAGE 2 930 375 kmenu.png
WAIT_STATE 8

What does this mean?

**bigtomrodney** · 12-03-2005

I think once you have the theme.rc and all of the images in a tarred folder you can then add it through KDE Control Centre. Or possibly just drop it into the relevent location in your own installation.

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