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

[Gary C Martin]

On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote:

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

Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review.

--G

> What's the deadline please?
>
> thanks
> Sean
>
>
>
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> 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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