[Bugs] #709 NORM: bootscreen still needs improvements

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#709: bootscreen still needs improvements
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    Reporter:  sdz          |          Owner:  sdz          
        Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new          
    Priority:  Normal       |      Milestone:  soas_linuxtag
   Component:  SoaS         |        Version:  Unspecified  
    Severity:  Major        |     Resolution:               
    Keywords:               |   Distribution:  SoaS         
Status_field:  New          |  
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Comment(by SeanDaly):

 It's great the bootscreen show the Sugar logo. May I suggest we include a
 version number too, ideally with a snapshot date or other specific build
 identifier? This would greatly simplify user ability to identify what they
 are running. The text itself could be quite small. Is this difficult? I've
 seen this discussed here by Martin Dengler:
 http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-May/014230.html

 the method seems to be:

 <snip>
 the Logo_black_02-indexed-ascii.ppm is just
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Image:Logo_black_02.svg opened in the GIMP
 and saved as indexed (223 colours) ASCII.
 </snip>

 May I propose an imagemagick commandline which could generate the ppm file
 from the logo and a text file, for example? I've done similar before.

 It would be a good idea to have copyright info too, but that's less
 important I think.

 thanks
 Sean

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