On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:54:55AM -0500, Luis Felipe López Acevedo wrote: > > In normal font, background is usually transparent. With your splash image > > I assume foreground would be white, but this does apply to the window > > borders > > too (in your example they're black). Would that be a problem? > > That's ok. The border could be white too.
Ok > > In highlight font, I think you used white as foreground but I'm not sure > > what > > color did you use as background (dark-gray?). Keep in mind you can't use > > any > > color, for now you can only choose from the 16 color palette. But if it's > > important, I can improve the code that has this limitation. > > Foreground is always white (normal and highlight). The background for > highlighted options in the example image is black with 50% of opacity. > If we can't use transparency, black is ok. Ok (patches welcome if someone wants to improve that, it's not hard) > If GRUB is what I see in the following image, I think we should use a > slightly different theme for install CD; the same background image with > "gNewSense GNU/Linux" added somewhere, so that people know what they are > about to install. > > http://blogs.koolwal.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lenny_install_splash.png That's not GRUB, it's vesamenu (a program that's usually loaded by syslinux). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
