Buchan Milne wrote: > BTW, maybe with Warly's new mandrake_theme idea, we should consider > making up a mandrake_theme_enterprise, which also contains a desktop > background as it should, and a gdm theme, and possibly some themes for > karamba (and the gdesklet equivalent), but not have explicit requires > (gdm/karamba etc). > > snip < > > John Keller seems to know a bit about GDM themes, John, care to sort out > the stuff for a GDM theme, and someone can wrap it up in a package?
Sure, I could try that. About time I put my money where my mouth is around here! A GDM theme includes: - a background (can be an SVG!) - 4 icons (Language selection, Session selection, Actions [shutdown, restart, etc], and Quit [multiple logins]) - a zone for welcome text, login boxes (solid colors, can use alphas) - a zone for the date/time I could make a theme from Brant's (Fitzsimmons) and Tim's (Butler) bootsplashes, but I'd need a version without any of the alpha'd boxes. For example: a larger version of Tim's KDE splash screen, but with the "Linux Mandrake" shifted up/down to give enough room for a login area would be cool. Even better would be a separate background (svg or png) from the logo (png). That way, I could stretch the background without distorting the logo. Otherwise, something like Brant's verbose bootsplash (but without progress bar or alpha panel) would be great. That gives plenty of room for the login area and icons. (Speaking of which, I'll see if I can't find ones suitable for each but I'm no artist :) Feel free to send images directly to me at my @matchbox.fr address, as well as any info about alpha percentages, preferred colors, etc that you'd like for me to use. Hey, this should be fun! - John
