On 1/25/08, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Thayer, > > Friday 25 January 2008, Thayer Williams wrote: > | My method for making the kernel logo: > | 1. Extract a png from the svg sources > | 2. Resize and optimize the colour depth with GIMP/Fireworks > | 3. Use pngtopnm (after patching our netpbm package) > | 4. Use pnmtoplainpnm to finish it off > > i use the following: > > 1 export png in inkscape > 2 flatten image (gimp) > 3 gaussian blur ~=1/100 of image width = pixel (120px final wide pic has > 1.2 px gaussian blur - makes it easier to dither sharp edges later) > 4 resize to 120x120 px > 5 put in indexed colourspace, use FS dithering > 6 export image to ppm respectively to pbm > 7 build kernel to test it (i'm compiling right now) > > | I didn't realize there was so much passion behind the inclusion of > | a framebuffer logo; it's on my screen for all of about 20 seconds. > > humans can find passion behind anything - even breathing and sex. > > | I see a number of aesthetic problems with using such a logo, and > | they are as follows: > | > | 1. 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Users must customize their fb to be widescreen and > | like someone else pointed out, 1680x1050 and other widescreen > | resolutions are not supported even when customized. > > users must customize their computer to enable fb anyway. > default arch is not using fb, so when they do so, they should do it right. > > | 3. The icon is fairly small and limiting in its scope > > the icon is just a symbol, not a poster presentation in 32bit colourspace. > it stands for one cpu and is originally a penguin. we replace it for our > logo because we like symbols to be arch-shaped. > > viva la archisation! viva el arch!
lolwut? This thread, and this post in particular..... lets just say i had a bout of face-palm-itus this morning.
