ubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 21, Issue 2

[Michiel Sikma]

> Monospace is actually much easier to read/track, and is much easier for
> me to deal with as "the guy who may have to integrate it into usplash",
> so if you do intend to start doing custom fonts for my approval, I would
> prefer a monospace one.  I've already asked a few people about the
> possibility of new monospace fonts that don't suck, so anything you
> could come up with, I'd love to see.
> 
> (Note, I'd like to keep it "bold" looking, as I personally think a
> "spindly" font looks out of place on an otherwise colour-rich image, but
> I'm willing to entertain other ideas)
> 
> As for the progress bar, it's a fair bit more effort than you may think
> to have a textured progress bar, but if demand was high enough, it could
> probably be done.  I doubt I'd get it done for dapper, though.  I really
> wish people would make suggestions like this at the beginning of a
> release cycle.
> 
> ... Adam

I'll have a few new pixel fonts ready soon (as well as some more 
suggestions besides just this one). What format do you prefer to get 
them in? I'm afraid that I can't make font files other than the Windows 
FON type, which that other font also is. I just don't know how the other 
formats work. But maybe you can also use a bitmap with the characters in it.

Also, is it really that difficult to create a textured progress bar? 
Wouldn't it just be one image that's being overlaid into the other one 
by method of a mask? At least, it's graphically nothing beyond that as 
far as I'm concerned (there's no animation going on like in the Windows 
and Mac OS boot screens).

Regards, Michiel

PS: I know what you mean when you say you'd rather have new things 
brought up at the beginning of the work. I get that a lot myself, too. 
:) I'm in the Web design business and people just don't ever seem to be 
happy. I guess it's because they just don't know what they want.