Removing the old ubuntu theme from plymouth

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey,

We postponed the change to after the LTS but it has been uploaded to kinetic
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/22.02.122-1ubuntu2

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher

Le 18/03/2022 à 16:29, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> Hey there,
>
> A refresh of the Ubuntu logo is landing in Jammy, we updated the 
> default plymouth theme (spinner, the one which displays the 
> bios/vendor icon in the middle of the screen with an ubuntu watermark 
> at the bottom) but it triggers the question of what to do with the old 
> 'ubuntu-logo' theme which we were using until focal.
>
> Since the artwork is outdated and the theme unmaintained  the Desktop 
> Team is proposing to remove ubuntu-logo now. The theme is still 
> recommended by the unity and kylin desktop packages, we suggest 
> replacing it by spinner as it has been done for ubuntu desktop.
>
> Is anyone knowing of a reason why we shouldn't do that change? If so 
> please reply to that email, otherwise we will go ahead and file a FFe 
> to remove the theme before the LTS.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastien Bacher
>
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