[Artwork] Plymouth theme discussion

[Fran Dieguez]

On lun 26 ago 2013 22:12:11 CEST, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tested it and it definitely is something that is system-wide
> (also I tested if it was some of the text-mode plymouth mode colours
> and the blue kept appearing). As soon as I start working on syslinux,
> i.e., tomorrow, I'll see if my suspicion is right.
>
> About the bullet size. An updated version has been pushed to the Git
> repository. This is how it looks right now:
> http://cl.ly/image/3B2i0806103P
>
>
> On 26 August 2013 20:49, Fran Dieguez <fran.dieguez at mabishu.com
> <mailto:fran.dieguez at mabishu.com>> wrote:
>
>     On lun 26 ago 2013 20:39:47 CEST, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
>
>         Thanks for the info. At first, I thought the same, but then I
>         installed the default Ubuntu Plymouth theme and the same colour is
>         shown, that's why I believe it's some kind of system-wide
>         colour (I
>         even think Syslinux might be involved here, which is the very next
>         thing on my TODO list).
>
>         Thanks for explaining the second issue. Now that I think about
>         it, I
>         remember having read it somewhere before.
>
>         Best regards.
>
>         On 26 Aug 2013 20:35, "Fran Dieguez" <fran.dieguez at mabishu.com
>         <mailto:fran.dieguez at mabishu.com>
>         <mailto:fran.dieguez at mabishu.__com
>         <mailto:fran.dieguez at mabishu.com>>> wrote:
>
>             On 26/08/13 20:01, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
>
>                 Known issues:
>
>                   * When you reboot your system a plain blue screen is
>         shown,
>                 but I
>                     believe this is a system-wide default colour (it
>         actually
>                 doesn't
>                     depend on your Plymouth theme).
>
>
>             I think that you can control that color from the plymouth
>         script file.
>
>             I have done some previous plymouth themes (quite basic,
>         and based
>             on the stock one) and I'd managed to change that color.
>
>             Check lines 164 and 165 from the ubuntu-gnome-logo.script
>         file.
>             Maybe those could give some clues.
>
>                   * If you close your session and log-in again, a
>         GNOME stripe
>                 wallpaper
>                     is shown for a while. I have no clue on this one, but
>                 again this
>                     does not depend on Plymouth theme. Actually this may
>                 happen the very
>                     first time you enter your session if you don't use
>                 automatic session
>                     login (which I use).
>
>
>             I have read that it's a "problem" with plymouth/Xserver
>         because
>             Plymouth ends its execution and gives the control to the gnome
>             desktop, which loads that default wallpaper until the user
>         defined
>             is loaded. Sorry if I'm wrong with the explanations.
>
>             Regards
>
>
>     Check in this plymouth theme. It's being two years since I've done
>     it but I remember that our background color was green instead of Blue.
>
>     http://packages.cixug.es/__gitweb/?p=so-xug.git;a=tree;f=__look/xug-look-0.2/lib/__plymouth/themes/xug-logo;h=__2332db2553699a4a3a2baa6128b259__ddf50aa4d6;hb=__f7811077ba0c406fe15196e8716929__0dfe93e999
>     <http://packages.cixug.es/gitweb/?p=so-xug.git;a=tree;f=look/xug-look-0.2/lib/plymouth/themes/xug-logo;h=2332db2553699a4a3a2baa6128b259ddf50aa4d6;hb=f7811077ba0c406fe15196e87169290dfe93e999>
>
>

Great. Much better