Grub2 theme in the spirit of Lubuntu?

[John Hupp]

You can see a shot of the work-in-progress at Post your Grub 2 Themes 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1823915&page=14&p=13031738#post13031738>

I have some other things on the to-do list also, but I would be happy 
not only to have a Lubuntu icon, but also to know what shade of white is 
used in the LightDM login box.

On 5/23/2014 6:25 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> I was thinking along the lines of 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Themes
>
> But, you and John need to have a chat :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 23 May 2014 22:48, Rafael Laguna <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     Agree. But just one thing to keep in mind: Ubuntu itself hasn't
>     themed grub2. The normal screen is like this:
>     http://i.imgur.com/95sPGMI.png
>     When you're talking about a more "complete" theme, do you mean
>     something like this? http://i.imgur.com/Mj6fe6U.png
>
>     I'm sure you know you can customize (on any Ubuntu flavour) the
>     grub, grub2 or burg entries and theme it a bit with Grub
>     Customizer: http://goo.gl/Pmj9qH
>
>     Anyway, I was having a look to the wiki docs:
>
>     grub2: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>     grub2 (displays): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Displays
>
>     I don't say theming grub2 for Lubuntu is a bad idea. I'm
>     considering that, if there's no Ubuntu flavour customized, why
>     should we? But I insist, if you all (the Community) consider it's
>     a "must-have", I'll be glad to work on it.
>
>     Cheers!
>
>
>
>     --
>     Rafael Laguna
>     Lubuntu Artwork Team
>
>
>     2014-05-23 22:21 GMT+02:00 Phill Whiteside <PhillW at phillw.net
>     <mailto:PhillW at phillw.net>>:
>
>         There is a lot of artwork at
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Artwork If you need something
>         more specific, have a chat with Rafael (TL of Lubuntu artwork
>         team).  (He's the guy with the Japanese name) :P
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Phill.
>
>
>
>
>         On 23 May 2014 19:24, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com
>         <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>
>             On 5/10/2014 5:37 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>
>                 On 05/10/2014 03:20 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
>                     Does anyone know of a ready-made Grub2 theme that
>                     is not heavy and that accords decently with the
>                     Lubuntu design?  I'm dual-booting Windows and
>                     Lubuntu and looking for something dressier than
>                     the default black-and-white menu.
>
>                     And I use the word "theme" advisedly.  I don't
>                     mean merely adding a background image and font
>                     colors (though I'll probably do that if I don't
>                     find a not-too-difficult theme solution).
>
>
>                 John:
>
>                 I applaud your idea.
>
>                 I think, if it did nothing else, that it should
>                 indicate "Lubuntu" instead of "Ubuntu".  I have a lot
>                 of partitions on my machines, and it would be helpful
>                 to know which is which.
>
>                 Linux Mint seems to be able to do it, as does
>                 openSUSE.  I would like it if each Ubuntu variant
>                 identified itself in the GRUB menu.
>
>                 I noticed that the LXLE spin-off of Lubuntu 12.04 has
>                 a GRUB background picture (which I like), though it
>                 makes the text hard to read (except for the selected
>                 item).
>
>
>             I'm working on a theme now.  Is there a Lubuntu icon file
>             that I can grab somewhere?
>
>
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