Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-29 Thread spg76
I don't know if I have to announce it here but I made an animation for the boot and upload it to the wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot#spg76%27s%20boot -- Seba (AKA spg76) http://www.ubuntu-ar.org -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-29 Thread Jonathan Blackhall
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, spg76 sebastianpo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if I have to announce it here but I made an animation for the boot and upload it to the wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot#spg76%27s%20boot I think that looks really good. Simple, but

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Tooley
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jonathan Blackhalljohnny.one@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, spg76 sebastianpo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if I have to announce it here but I made an animation for the boot and upload it to the wiki.

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 00:36:00 Jonathan Blackhall wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, spg76 sebastianpo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if I have to announce it here but I made an animation for the boot and upload it to the wiki.

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-29 Thread Dylan McCall
I think that what we are looking for is something fluid yet solid and complete. No flickering, no jumping...simple movements which show the flow of the river, so to speak ;) Speaking of the flow, do we know yet if there will be a black screen between usplash and GDM? Or will it be magically

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-27 Thread John Baer
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 12:00 +0100, Jonathan wrote: Message: 5 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:18:50 -0500 (CDT) From: johnny.one@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-27 Thread Dylan McCall
I downloaded the fedora live CD to view their effort and found the boot animation did not display on my nVidia desktop but did display on my Intel laptop. :/ This is because NVidia is afraid of providing an open source kernel end for their driver (as i understand it, strictly the mode setting

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-27 Thread david zondlo
As for boot animation, I recommend something ridiculously simple, eg. a logo and a throbber, maybe with a non-black background colour (dark grey?) to spruce things up and show off the awesome. Remember that we're aiming for a really, really quick boot. That means complex animations will not

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-27 Thread Jeffrey Carpenter
I like that boot animation. On Jun 27, 2009, at 2:57 PM, david zondlo wrote: As for boot animation, I recommend something ridiculously simple, eg. a logo and a throbber, maybe with a non-black background colour (dark grey?) to spruce things up and show off the awesome. Remember that we're

[ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Hi Everyone, As some of you may already know, Ubuntu Karmic will get a whole new, shiny and flicker-free boot experience. Another words, the sequence of events between switching on your computer and your desktop session will be largely redeveloped and redesigned. New stuff includes: - grub 2,

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread david zondlo
Wow!! This is very awesome. I am extremely excited about karmic's artwork! Even the plain-text boot in the pics looks great. Just the clean up and font change makes it look very nice and professional. ~Dave -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
david zondlo wrote: Wow!! This is very awesome. I am extremely excited about karmic's artwork! Even the plain-text boot in the pics looks great. Just the clean up and font change makes it look very nice and professional. Thanks, but please bear in mind these are just wireframes. The text

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Merk
I see the mention of solid colors. Given as I've never worked on such a thing. What are some of the other limitations to the graphics such as color depth, resolution, and fonts? Mat Tomaszewski wrote: Hi Everyone, As some of you may already know, Ubuntu Karmic will get a whole new,

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread david zondlo
Ahh, no way to change fonts? But still great work, I look forward to seeing what the booting experience will look like at the final release. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Merk wrote: I see the mention of solid colors. Given as I've never worked on such a thing. What are some of the other limitations to the graphics such as color depth, resolution, and fonts? In KMS-powered pieces (disk check, encrypted disk, initial splash screen) we're limited to the use of

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Mat Tomaszewski wrote: Merk wrote: ... Mar After short struggle, I'll return to my real name. Mat -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 26 June 2009 18:05:54 Mat Tomaszewski wrote: Merk wrote: I see the mention of solid colors. Given as I've never worked on such a thing. What are some of the other limitations to the graphics such as color depth, resolution, and fonts? In KMS-powered pieces (disk check,

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Anton Kerezov
В 18:13 +0200 на 26.06.2009 (пт), Kenneth Wimer написа: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot I have uploaded one idea I had for New Wave usplash. Anton -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread Smartboy
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Mat Tomaszewski mat.tomaszew...@canonical.com wrote: Merk wrote: I see the mention of solid colors. Given as I've never worked on such a thing. What are some of the other limitations to the graphics such as color depth, resolution, and fonts? In

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

2009-06-26 Thread johnny . one . eye
Some really interesting design ideas can be found in the old Intrepid artwork: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Newsplash Jonathan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com