[SoaS] Splash screen

[Sean DALY]

cc'ing marketing, since this is a vital branding issue.

Tim - be sure to look at this page:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo
and read through this discussion thread:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-May/001184.html

concerning boot animation... there's been very useful reflection
including mockups on the issue.

We have been unhappy with the OLPC-OS v8.2 and prior boot animations
which never communicated what OS is loading, and we are in discussions
with OLPC for the XO-1.5s to show a Sugar logo at boot.

by blue swirl i assume you mean the Fedora background? my
understanding is that it is indeed customizable. i agree that a sugar
logo (plus maybe fedora remix logo?) would be better.

Sean



On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Tim McNamara
<paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to see SoaS's boot splash change, following on from #741.
> As a stop gap to a more complete solution (can we use gdm?), I suggest
> changing some of the splash images away from the blue swirl to something
> more as consistent with the OLPC startup sequence as possible. That would
> mean modifying /EFI/boot/splash.jpg and /EFI/boot/splash.xpm.gz and the GRUB
> menu settings so that they can be read.
> Am happy to supply draft images & suggested config settings if there's
> interest.
> If there is no interest to change the boot setup, then we should close the
> ticket.
> timClicks
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