Removing the old ubuntu theme from plymouth

[Daniel van Vugt]

Yes I noticed that when looking at the proposed plymouth:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/plymouth/0.9.5+git20211018-1ubuntu3/plymouth_0.9.5+git20211018-1ubuntu3.debian.tar.xz

It appears to all be the same 'ubuntu-logo' theme. We can't remove the old 
graphics just yet because they're referenced by our current theme in 
ubuntu-logo.patch:

+if (bits_per_pixel == 4) {
+    logo_filename = "ubuntu-logo16.png";  // old logo
...
+} else {
+    logo_filename = "ubuntu-logo.png";  // new logo

Falling back to a lower bit depth seems like something we should still support 
so maybe we should just update ubuntu-logo16.png after ubuntu-logo.png is finalized.

- Daniel


On 18/3/22 11:29 pm, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> 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 Since the artwork is outdated and the theme unmaintained  the Desktop Team is 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
> 
>