On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: > Sebastian, Gary > > I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for > awhile
Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. --G > What's the deadline please? > > thanks > Sean > > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin > <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been >>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum >>> repo >>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. >>> >>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten, >>> and I >>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal >>> with a >>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo >>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny (probably >>> with a progress bar). >> >> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition. >> >>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was >>> at >>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really >>> great if >>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen. >> >> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if no >> one else steps forward. >> >> So. When did you need it by? >> >>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release, >>> which >>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure: >>> >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2 >>> >>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with. >> >> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it >> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the config >> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the >> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the location >> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again? >> >> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in >> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if this >> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the correct >> file names :-) >> >> Regards, >> --Gary >> >>> Thanks, >>> --Sebastian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel