Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> I've got some back-burner work on unified Gentoo theming for grub,
>> bootsplash, gdm/kdm [1]. (IOW, I spent a day doing research 2 months ago
>> and forgot about it until yesterday.) It's currently possible to have a
>> really awesome bootup, but it's quite a bit of work to configure and I
>> want to make it trivially easy.
> 
> can you post the .xpm for use with grub-0.xx for me to check out ?

Don't have one designed yet, this is all still in the planning stages.

But gimp can trivially take any image, reduce it to 15 colors using a
smart algorithm and save as xpm so feel free to use whatever you want
till then.

>> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes
>> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding
>> along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it.
> 
> grub-0.xx has no upstream theme ... unless you count like white text on a 
> black background "a theme"

Exactly, that's the point. Places without themes are great places to
provide ours, since we aren't really overriding anything.

Thanks,
Donnie


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