Further usplash development

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Wed Aug 31 08:52:29 CDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:13:43PM +1000, Andy Fitzsimon wrote:
> my eyes..
> 
> the splash image is grainy and sickly.
> 
> what a waste of 16 perfectly good colours.
> 
> 
> to whoever made it .. "anti-aliasing  dude, not dithering " .. 
> dithering at that resolution cannot look nice .  its an obvious compromise.
> "you cant afford glows at 16 colours.. deal with it."
> 
> now im not saying that the below are any better.  but we really need to move
> away from the dark terminal-like  theme.

The reason its black, and I agree it should be, is that on displays
where the display is not stretched (ex: many laptop LCDs), its this blob
in the middle of the screen and is rather ugly.

As such I think it would be best being black, and personally, I quite
like the current one ;)

Trent

> 
> http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/usplash-example.png
> http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/usplash-16-noprogress.png
> http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/usplash-16-progress.png

> -- 
> ubuntu-devel mailing list
> ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel


-- 
Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.



More information about the ubuntu-devel mailing list