On Thursday 17 July 2003 09:59 am, Austin Godber wrote:
> Let me know what you think and I will look into the branding (I know where
> to change the background image in X and the splash image in syslinux, just
> haven't seen where to change that stupid KDE startup image).

The *ahem* "stupid" startup image is controlled by the 'ksplash' program.  
Following KDE conventions, all resources associated with ksplash are in 
$KDEDIR/share/apps/ksplash.  Under SuSE, it's /opt/kde3/share... Redhat has 
it in /usr/share.. dunno where Knoppix has it offhand.

Specifically, ksplash looks for four PNG file in apps/ksplash/pics: 
splash_active_bar.png, splash_inactive_bar.png, splash_bottom.png, and 
splash_top.png

All you have to do is rename ksplash/pics to something else, and create your 
own ksplash/pics with your own files.

If you want to install a custom splash screen for a specific user, then put 
all the files in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/ksplash instead of the global KDEDIR.

There are a decent amount of 'sample' splash screens on http://kde-look.org