[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

[Sean DALY]

Sebastian, Gary

I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for awhile

What's the deadline please?

thanks
Sean




On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been
>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum
>> repo
>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11.
>>
>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten,
>> and I
>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal with a
>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo
>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny (probably
>> with a progress bar).
>
> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition.
>
>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was at
>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really great if
>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen.
>
> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if no
> one else steps forward.
>
> So. When did you need it by?
>
>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release, which
>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure:
>>
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2
>>
>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.
>
> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it
> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the config
> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the
> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the location
> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again?
>
> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in
> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if this
> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the correct
> file names :-)
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> Thanks,
>> --Sebastian
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