I didn't have as much time this weekend as I had planned on.

Then when I did get time, I've been working on trying to get gensplash to work.  First it was a problem with sysctl trying to be patched both by -ck and -fbsplash.  I found -cko which has both patches among others like -ac, so that's all fine now.  The problem is the latest version of gensplashutils doesn't work with 0.9.1 of the fbsplash patch, and 0.9.2 isn't available for the 2.6.10 kernel.  I'm not about to install 2.6.11 with the new development model, so I'm waiting on 2.6.12 now.  It's at rc5 now, so hopefully we'll be seeing it soon.

Of course, I haven't tracked the -cko patch yet, so I don't know what development speeds to expect on their end.

But, I have an idea for the Slim theme.  I'm not quite sure how to accomplish my goals, though, so we'll see what happens.

On a side note, I got the vesafb-tng framebuffer working in my new kernel.  I was a bit hesitant because of reports that it's slow, but my GeForce3 doesn't flinch.  And damn is this thing nice, the alignment in 1024x768 is perfect, while with the plain old vesafb it slipped off the left side of the screen a bit.  Even 1600x1200 is perfect (besides no decent fonts for that resolution, vesafb lost a lot of text at that res), and I can't begin to express how wonderful it is to be able to set the refresh rate.  No more flicker!