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

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On di, 2006-05-30 at 12:52 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That's very good. But is it possible to improve usplash theme format ?
> especially to had fancy effect such as mng, theme progress bar, define
> colors not using a convention of palette order, translation, hidden
> text, etc. ?

The colors will be limited to the palette used in the png picture that
is the source for the theme. This is a limitation of vga16fb/bogl.
Currently the palette index of the used colors is hardcoded. My proposed
patches change that. Fancier progress bars require another patch.

Hidden text is possible by setting the size of the text area to 0,
translation is not possible, this is a limitation of the
initscripts/sysvinit system.

-- 
Dennis K.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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