93093 - Optimize OS/2 and Windows splashscreens

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Aaron Kaluszka]

The splash screen currently takes up way too much space.  I used ResHacker to
replace the splash screen with the same bitmap saved using RLE.  mozilla.exe
shrank from 342k to 104k.

Comment 1

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Attachment: RLE splash bitmap

Comment 2

[timeless]

so if the bitmap isn't changing can we check in a compressed version?

[reporter fwiw we kind of froze the picture stuff due to licensing issues]

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

--> kerz

Comment 4

[Jason Kersey]

oh i am all over this.  we can either wontfix it or dupe it.  either way, we 
aren't changing the existing splash.  I'll dupe it for now against the bug for 
new splash screens.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32218 ***

Comment 5

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Since bug 28028 is /still/ not resolved I was hoping we could at least reduce 
the size of the disk/distribution footprint.  We aren't changing the displayed 
image _at all_ so why not do this?!  All that is required is 
replacing /mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap/splash.bmp with the attached file.  If the 
licensing issue is going to be resolved RSN I would understand, otherwise it 
sounds extremely bureaucratic to me.

Comment 6

[Aaron Kaluszka]

This really shouldn't be DUPLICATE, REOPENing with depends.. The Netscape
releases should also do this with their splash screens.

Comment 7

[ratman]

i think the dependency on this bug should be reversed.  bug 32218 should depend
on this bug, since any new incorporated splash screen should be rle compressed
in the first place.

Comment 8

[timeless]

*** Bug 116865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Håkan Waara]

Attachment: Windows splash

The picture I attached to the dup is slightly smaller than the one attached
here, so I'm gonna attach these here.

This is the windows splashscreen. From 299K -> 59K (240K less!)

Comment 10

[Håkan Waara]

Attachment: Splash for OS/2

This is the splashos2.bmp image - the splashscreen for OS/2.

It goes from 298K -> 101K (197K less).

Comment 11

[Håkan Waara]

As I think this will cut bloat, (and speed up startup slightly?) I see no real
reason for not checking it in?

We don't need to go through the trouble of fixing bug 32218 (creating a new
splashscreen) to optimize the current one meanwhile.

Comment 12

[Alec Flett]

sure, I'm for it. let's see what it does to startup time. sr=alecf

Comment 13

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

r=mkaply. New splash works fine on OS/2.

And it reduces our MOZILLA.EXE. woohoo.

Comment 14

[Håkan Waara]

->me

Comment 15

[Aaron Kaluszka]

I filed bug 118183 to take the next step in splash bitmap compression.

Comment 16

[Håkan Waara]

fixed.