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
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