Let's go with Lines. Let's get it in SVN and get an upload this week
Cheers, Paul On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Aurélien COUDERC <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi team, > > with good help from Juliette, I’ve set-up a plymouth theme and a KDM > theme based on the Lines artwork. > You can find the work attached to the wiki page [1], including some KDM > screenshots. > All feedback welcome. > In particular for plymouth with regards to messages, fsck status, > passphrase… > > For the scripted / XML parts it’s all based on Joy and former work and > can be published under the same license(s). > The KDM icons are from Joy also. > The main artwork is already stated as CC-BY 3.0 by Juliette on the wiki. > > Next stops : > - KDE splash for plasma loading : easy, will do > - GDM <-- had a quick look but found little doc on theming besides basic > wallpaper replacement, any hint / documentation welcome > - Grub <-- no idea how that work, pointers welcome too > > By the way has any formal choice been made concerning the default > artwork for Jessie ? > > I’m also fond of DotsAndSwing and Fresh, so I may dedicate a bit of time > to do some equivalent work on one of these if the artists are interested > and as time permits. > > > [1] > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Lines?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=2014-09-17_Lines_Aur%C3%A9lien.tar.xz > > Cheers, > --Aurélien > > > Le 01/09/2014 13:49, [email protected] a écrit : >> Hi, >> Thank you Aurelien for all this detailed informations ! It is very useful >> and you have good ideas ! :D >> >> I'll work on the plymouth theme once the others wallpapers formats >> (2560x1080, 1280x1024, 1600x1200) are finished and after the other >> modifications (adding "debian" on the login and boot screen). >> >> Regards, >> Juliette >> >> >> ----- Mail original ----- >> De: "Aurélien COUDERC" <[email protected]> >> À: [email protected] >> Envoyé: Dimanche 31 Août 2014 23:23:08 >> Objet: Re: Artwork for jessie? >> >> Le 30/08/2014 22:13, Vincent Blut a écrit : >>> Le jeu. 28 août 2014 à 11:29, [email protected] a écrit : >>> >>>> and the Plymouth theme (I was thinking about a line representing the >>>> process but I dont know how to do that... maybe a script ?). >>> I don’t know Plymouth well enough but I guess you would have to >>> decompose your progress bar by creating a picture for each progression >>> step >>> (pixel by pixel‽). Then, I think you would have to incrementaly load your >>> progress bar pictures (using a "for" loop) in your "lines.script" files. >>> >>> But let’s wait someone with deeper knowledge about Plymouth. >> Hi, >> >> I did the scripting of the spacefun theme for squeeze, so I may be of >> some help. >> >> - The easy way for plymouth is indeed the « script » module that lets >> you animate the bootup screen with a relatively easy (but limited) >> javascript-like scripting language [1]. You may render text, images and >> that’s it. >> >> - It’s better to handle the theme elements separately and compose them >> on the screen with a plymouth script. If you can layer the SVG to >> separate the background, the logo, the curves it would be useful. We can >> then scale/crop the background to fill the screen but keep the other >> elements in the correct position whatever the screen ratio. >> >> - There is no real way to know the progress of the boot process as it >> depends on many things, so a progress bar in the traditional sense is >> not recommended. Better try with a loopable animation. I think pulsing >> some of the curves lines in your theme with a whiter dot/section like >> electrons orbiting around the debian logo would give a cool effect. If >> you can produce the animation steps I can do the scripting or help you >> with it. >> In the meantime a simpler loopable progress bar can do. >> >> - I’d like to see the « debian 8 » text for the boot, like you have in >> the installer banner. Maybe in a corner or some better idea. We can >> handle it as a separate element in the theme to ensure it’s always in >> correct place and wholy visible. >> It won’t go in the user’s way at that time, and it’s not as if the >> universal operating system was so well known that it could afford >> missing that little publicity. :-) >> >> - It would be great to also have « debian 8 » displayed on the login >> screen for the same reasons. It needs a bit of tweaking to the GDM / >> KDM… theme to ensure that it is always correctly placed and visible for >> reasonable screen ratios. Again if you can think of somewhere reasonable >> to put it in your team, I’ll give at least KDM a try. >> >> >> >> [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/Scripts/ >> >>>> Regards >>>> Juliette >>> Wish you a good week-end, >>> Vincent >> Kindly, >> --Aurélien >> >> > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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