Blue text on gray background hard to read

Alfredo Hernández aldomann.designs at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 11:57:48 UTC 2013


Lance,

This is how it will look in the final version (it should be available
pushed to the daily images soon).
http://cl.ly/image/0K450h1B1Y1m

Regards



On 7 September 2013 07:43, Tim <tim at feathertop.org> wrote:

>  Hi Alfredo,
>   You can reproduce contrast issue with the following command.
>
>  plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash ; plymouth display-message --text="bad contrast test"; for ((I=0; I<10; I++)); do plymouth --update=test$I ; sleep 1; done; plymouth quit
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> Tim
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> On 07/09/13 11:30, Tim wrote:
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> On 07/09/13 09:43, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
>
> Oh, thanks. I suspect, then, that casper settings is one of those
> automagically generated files (as a non-technical guy) that take advantage
> of other packages config. For instance, grub uses the colour configurations
> set in Plymouth. I'm quite sure this involves syslinux or plymouth, as they
> are the only packages I have set to show that shiny blue text (#0087ED).
>
> Plymouth is within the squashfs and would run before the persistent
> filesystem overlay is loaded. The only way to edit that would be unpack,
> change files and then repack.
>
> I don't see anything in casper that touches plymouth theme.
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> On 6 September 2013 23:30, Erick Brunzell <lbsolost at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/06/2013 02:11 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> > On 6 September 2013 13:54, Alfredo Hernández <
>> aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> BTW, does anybody know where are Plymouth files located at the
>> LiveUSB? I
>> >> mean, I can change syslinux and test it anytime I want, but I have no
>> clue
>> >> about how to do it with Plymouth (which, I believe, handles the text
>> colour
>> >> we are talking about).
>> > Our plymouth themes are part of ubuntu-gnome-default-settings.
>> >
>> > From
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-gnome-default-settings/
>> > Click on the most recent upload number (13.10.8)
>> > Click i386
>> > Click buildlog
>> > Near the bottom of the build log is the list of files installed by the
>> packages.
>> >
>> > Jeremy
>> >
>>  I suspect that these particular fonts (regardless of size or color) are
>> part of 'casper'.
>>
>> Everything I see post-installation looks fine ............... so I think
>> 'plymouth' is fine.
>>
>> But I have no idea how 'casper' plays with 'syslinux' .............. or
>> 'ubiquity' :^(
>>
>> Just to be perfectly clear:
>>
>> I only see this issue using the live image, NOT an installed Ubuntu
>> GNOME Saucy Beta 1!
>>
>> It does effect other things regarding 'casper' but booting the live
>> image and choosing Check disc for defects is the easiest to reproduce.
>>
>> I notice comments about 'syslinux'. How does that play into 'casper'?
>>
>> Regardless we need not get our panties in a bunch. I think as long as we
>> get this fixed by beta 2 we'll be fine. Otherwise the newest theming
>> looks fine ;^)
>>
>> Alfredo has done a super great job so let's help him wherever possible
>> without creating stress!!!
>>
>> Lance
>>
>> PS: If I didn't make it clear enough I suspect this is related to
>> 'casper'!
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