[ubuntu-art] Usplash change?

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:13 PM, AA Boy <smartboyathome at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a lot of good ideas going around here on the future of Usplash.
> Just wanted to submit it as something to look to for a change come Intrepid.

There was a lot of discussion on usplash in the past. It hasn't
changed much in a while (iirc, the current design came with edgy) but
when it did change we felt it was quite an accomplishment.

It needed to be black because some LCDs do not stretch a
low-resolution image to fill the screen, instead painting a black
border around it. Some widescreen screens will take a 4:3 image and
center it, stretching it to fill the height but putting black borders
on the sides.

Also, the current usplash conceals the distortion caused by viewing a
4:3 aspect ratio image stretched to fill a 16:10 wide screen and it
has no text to translate.

I don't remember who the original artist was who did it but it's
fabulously simple and elegant. The animation is muted and low-key and
is just enough to assure the user that something is happening. Overall
it fits perfectly into the Ubuntu concept of a clean simple desktop
environment.

Anyone hoping to create a replacement should strive to meet these same ideals.

P.S. Don't some of the teams have some type of integration between the
forum and the mailing list so that users can participate either way?
It seems a shame that there's two separate places.

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Matthew Nuzum
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