Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Parag Agarwal
Natan, ubuntu should start mentioning the version the user is running. For eg. Gutsy gibbon or lucid lynux...(plz ignore spelling mistakes) it will make a great deal of difference as the users will eventually end up remembering the versions and it will create top of the mind recall for ubuntu... ju

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Nathan Beaumont
I would use an .svg version of the Ubuntu logo, for resizing issues. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM, iceman snowman wrote: > To be honest, I would be OK with just a graphical enchantment to the > booting screen. Not to take it away from the logo + looping loading dots > concept, but to make it vi

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread iceman snowman
To be honest, I would be OK with just a graphical enchantment to the booting screen. Not to take it away from the logo + looping loading dots concept, but to make it visually more pleasing to look at. After all it's a process where the user is required to wait and just look at it, so it might as

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Collard
Oh well we do what can be done Richard Collard show...@shaw.ca Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:32 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: > Currently its impossible but with plymouth? Problem is that some will > have to code it... > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mark Curti

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Dana Goyette
Speaking of "not knowing progress", I find the current Plymouth behavior looks like a "deranged" progress bar, rather than like an "undefined" boot progress indicator. See my comments here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553386 (Since top-posting seems to be the norm

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Saleel Velankar
Currently its impossible but with plymouth? Problem is that some will have to code it... On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mark Curtis wrote: > I'm pretty sure that's impossible, because I believe the current boot > doesn't know the progress. That's why the dots actually loop and don't light > up

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Curtis
I'm pretty sure that's impossible, because I believe the current boot doesn't know the progress. That's why the dots actually loop and don't light up following the percentage of the OS loaded. From: show...@shaw.ca To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:25:53 -0700 Subject: [u

[ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Collard
This is a suggestion since I have no talent in art When Ubuntu first boot with the Ubuntu and the few dots under I would recommend the following Have the word Ubuntu written inside the logo with the logo gradually increasing with the original color using each segment as Ubuntu loads the same cou