Hello everyone, I felt it was time to put my money where my mouth is, so here you go: http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash-minimalistic_0.1.deb
What it has: - 100% correct Ubuntu colors - Sharp antialiased logo - No text, only "FAIL" if something goes wrong - Graceful fallback if fullscreen is not possible (rounded corners) It looks like this on a proper screen: http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/minimalistic-working-full.jpg It looks like this on a non-scaling screen (notice the round corners): http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/minimalistic-working-squashed.jpg Please test and let me know if it works, what you think and what can be improved [1] [2]. I'm still a huge supporter of dropping the boot text: no other significant commercial OS I know of shows techno talk on boot, I think it's time to get Ubuntu into the 21st century like the others. I hope I've also disproved a lot of talk about how this can't be done properly and that I'm unaware of usplash limitations, I've kept them in mind even before starting my first sketches. I think I've solved the non-scaling screen issue quite elegantly by adding rounded corners to the splash, maybe they could be a bit rounder, but I think they're fine as is. At the moment, you don't really notice them in fullscreen mode, which is good. I would really _love_ to get some reports streaming in about this splash looking bad on someone's hardware so that I can get a reality check. With kind regards, Frank Schoep [1] - Installation can take some time because the installation script needs to regenerate the initial kernel images. [2] - If you don't get the new splash after installation, make sure you don't have any other custom splash screens, otherwise use "sudo update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so" in a console to select "minimalistic.so" -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
