Rob, As I mentioned, the graphic boot will continue to evolve. This was a first cut based on what had been implemented in S10U2.
The lack of a keystroke to switch to text screen is a very high priority. I would also like to see a real progress indicator rather than the async indicator. And higher rez graphics available rather then the 640x480, 4bit graphic limitation we currently have. Frank Rob Clark wrote: > Orange is a "reasonable choice" for a _foreground_ color BASED > on your choice of _background_ color. If the background color > was orange you might well have chosen a different color. > > Based on the other colors on the bootsplash the choice of > orange (and it is a little dark blob) comes into question. > > The positional choice is odd; that you would cut a reasonable graphic > in half with this orange blob that stops and starts. The graphic would > be even better if it were dithered properly, but we digress... > > > Does it even offer any funtionality, no. > > If the boot freezes the orange blob merrily continues its pointless > journey from left to right, silent about any problems. > > This foolishness hides the boot info that us techies love, but I admit > that the 'average consumer' might prefer the Windows XP bootscreen. > > > It would make far more sense to have a light blue streak slide underneath > the words opensoLaris - to highlight and present the name (which needs > to have a version (or 2008.11) added somewhere). > > > Want to see a cool graphical bootscreen that is useful. > > Backtrack3 > http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html > > > Give it a boot, > Rob > > > >>> Andrew, >>> This color was chosen because it is the same color as >>> the progress indicators in the default desktop theme, Nimbus. >>> While it is comparatively bright, it is a reasonable choice. >>> >>> The graphical boot will continue to evolve over the >>> next few releases, and the background will be changed each release. >>> >>> Frank >>> >>> andrew wrote: >>> >>>> The graphical boot screen in OpenSolaris 2008.11 >>>> >>> currently has an orange blob that "spins" across the >>> progress bar in the middle of the screen. This >>> doesn't look right. Please can this be changed to >>> something that goes with the rest of the colour >>> scheme - e.g. light green to match the logo? It looks >>> really bad with orange. >>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Andrew. >>>> >> Yeah - I noticed that the nimbus theme had orange >> progress bars shortly after I posted that. It >> obviously doesn't look so odd in gnome. The last time >> I used happyface on Nevada it had a greeny petrol >> coloured blob which looked OK. But it definitely >> doesn't look right having an orange one. I'm starting >> to wonder about the orange progress bar in gnome as >> well now, but I'm not sure what it should be. Perhaps >> green like in the nice new background images? >> >> Cheers >> >> Andrew. >> _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
