Grub2 theme in the spirit of Lubuntu?

Israel israeldahl at gmail.com
Sat May 24 03:50:39 UTC 2014


I think there should be standard themes for all the Ubuntu Flavors!!
That is so nice and pleasing to the eye.  You are making good progress
on it!

On 05/23/2014 10:37 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Nice grub2 theme, John :-)
>
> How much does your theme cost?
>
> - counted as increased iso file size
> - counted as increased boot time
>
> If the cost is insignificant, it is a very good idea, particularly
> because I think it makes 'dual booting beginners' happier. (I guess you
> do not intend to show the grub menu in single boot systems.)
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> 2014-05-24 01:32, John Hupp skrev:
>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>


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