[ubuntu-art] On the art of creating usplash images

[Michiel Sikma]

Op 30-mei-2006, om 10:04 heeft Dennis Kaarsemaker het volgende  
geschreven:

> Hi all,
>
> Please have a look at
> http://www.kaarsemaker.net/images/usplash-viewer.png and tell me  
> whether
> such an application would be useful to you. Currently it can open
> usplash .so files, display them and change paameters. What I have
> planned is a big 'convert this png into an usplash library' button.
>
> I can't give you the code yet as it depends on a few usplash patchs of
> mine (filed as wishlist bug in LP), but the teaser screenshot  
> should be
> enough to get an impression.
> -- 
> Dennis K.
>
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Hey Dennis,

That looks really cool. I, for one, would have totally liked being  
able to preview my usplash like that and also convert it to a package  
with a single click. Great job!

The thing is, though, that I feel most people would rather work on  
doing more revisions to the usplash appearance rather than just a new  
image for the next release cycle. I too have plans, though not as  
radically new as some other people's plans, but they involve more  
things that just changes within the currently existing frame.

It still looks like an awesome piece of software, though, and it will  
be very useful in the future, without a doubt. Does it also fix  
palettes? That in particular is a tedious task.

Michiel

P.S.: like I've talked about earlier, both here and in the Ubuntu- 
devel list, I really think that we should replace the current usplash  
BDF font with a new one. I already created one a while back which was  
monospaced. It was too late to get one in for Dapper, but is it  
possible to sneak in something like that in a Dapper update, or would  
this be considered to be too big of a change; something an update  
should not do?