[ubuntu-art] Incoming Feisty art

[Alex Jones]

The new splash progress bar is nice, much better with the reflective
black background than the grey one!

One problem though, sometimes you notice it flickers when it is
updating. I guess it's not an artwork problem but more a usplash
problem, but I thought I'd bring it up anyway.

Good job!

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:01 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 14:41:43 Étienne Bersac wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found a bug in usplash-theme-ubuntu 0.9 : the red circle is in a
> > different tone than the red curve. You may forgot to redish the
> > circle :)
> >
> 
> Yes, I saw that today. I've changed things twice since then. Hopefully the 
> last change will make it on the next Herd. If not, close your eyes the first 
> time it boots and then update to the newest version ASAP :-)
> 
> > Also, i'm worrying about logo consistency. There is almost 5 variant of
> > the logo :
> >
> >       * The gfxboot one
> >       * The usplash one
> >       * The gdm one
> >       * The session splash one
> >       * The main menu one
> >
> > We must definetly make all this logo consistent. What can you do ?
> >
> 
> Well, everything except the gfxboot should not be a problem. Since the gfxboot 
> only uses 16 colors we are so limited that it is simply impossible to use the 
> exact same pic. We either need to go grey-scale or use a simple (non 3D) logo 
> for this. I do not think it would be good to try to make a different 3D 
> version to work with 16 colors as it would look too different to the rest of 
> them.
> 
> > Also, i really like the new wallpaper. It is so smooth, nice different.
> > I event suggest to to touch the session splash to include new logo from
> > usplash and smoothness of wallpaper.
> >
> 
> I wanted to start working on the session splash this week and intended to use 
> parts of the wallpaper for this.
> 
> > The same goes for gdm screen. I can help for gdm theme. I imagine a
> > background for gdm that use strictly the same tones than wallpaper, but
> > with a gradient adapted to the "content" of the gdm login (centered
> > field, etc.). Do you get it ? :)
> >
> 
> Exactly! Man, we think alike :-)
> 
> > Keep up the good work !
> > Étienne.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try :-)
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
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