Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-08 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:52, Mike Frysinger wrote: highly suspect statements these states are all quite common ... trying to make some kind of supposition as to which is the most common is a waste of time No. It's my opinion. Respect it, please. You don't have to agree. in my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-08 Thread Jakub Moc
Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:52, Mike Frysinger wrote: highly suspect statements these states are all quite common ... trying to make some kind of supposition as to which is the most common is a waste of time No. It's my opinion. Respect it, please. You don't have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it. There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Simon Stelling
Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it. There's a thread in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 07 April 2006 15:28, Simon Stelling wrote: He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken? How do you want not to enforce it? The last timeĀ¹ someone came up with a branding use flag, some were in favor of, some against it. Still, the basic question is: Why!?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I've got some back-burner work on unified Gentoo theming for grub, bootsplash, gdm/kdm [1]. (IOW, I spent a day doing research 2 months ago and forgot about it until yesterday.) It's currently possible to have a really awesome bootup, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I've got some back-burner work on unified Gentoo theming for grub, bootsplash, gdm/kdm [1]. (IOW, I spent a day doing research 2 months ago and forgot about it until yesterday.) It's currently possible to have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Donnie Berkholz wrote: can you post the .xpm for use with grub-0.xx for me to check out ? Don't have one designed yet, this is all still in the planning stages. There's one available at http://www.schultz-net.dk/grub.html (scroll down pass the Debian/Slackware ;) ). -- Krzysiek Pawlik

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 07 April 2006 10:31, Carsten Lohrke wrote: Still, the basic question is: Why!? There's no benefit for the user, who will choose whatever theming he wants anyways. Imho it's superfluous and therefore wasted time. highly suspect statements these states are all quite common ... trying

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, I've got some back-burner work on unified Gentoo theming for grub, bootsplash, gdm/kdm [1]. (IOW, I spent a day doing research 2 months ago and forgot about it until yesterday.) It's currently possible to have a really awesome bootup, but it's quite a bit of work to configure and I want