Hi list-mates, I've been integrating the artwork for 11.4 and I thought that it would be a good idea to write an openSUSE Branding HOWTO (gfxboot and bootsplash- branding-openSUSE). Feedback is welcome! Will's KDE Branding HOWTO is here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2010-06/msg00068.html If you have also done some branding, think about writing a HOWTO ;-) gfxboot Update the following images: back.jpg in themes/openSUSE/data-boot/ Startup options. 800x600 welcome.jpg in themes/openSUSE/data-install/ back.jpg in themes/openSUSE/data-install/ Install options. 800x600 You can get the svg of the CD shown in welcome.jpg at http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art/trees/master/cdboot bootsplash-branding-openSUSE Update the following files: All the silent-* and bootsplash-* images in themes/openSUSE/images/ silent-* is the non-verbose bootsplash bootsplash-* is the verbose bootsplash Take into account that bootsplash-* is the background image for the console (text should be readable). The sampling factor of both silent-* and bootsplash-* must be 2x2,1x1,1x1 (aka 411). You can convert them all at once running for file in *.jpg; do convert $file -sampling-factor 2x2,1x1,1x1 $file; done (requires ImageMagick) The current resolutions for both silent and bootsplash images are the following: 640x480 800x600 1024x600 1024x768 1152x768 1152x864 1280x768 1280x800 1280x854 1280x960 1280x1024 1366x768 1400x1050 1440x900 1600x1024 1600x1200 1680x1050 1920x1200 3200x1200 logo.mng is the logo for non-verbose bootsplash logov.mng is the logo for verbose bootsplash The configuration files are under themes/openSUSE/config/ There's no need to touch them unless you want to play with the mngs and the progress bar. Don't forget to take a look at the Gitorious openSUSE Art repository (gitorious.org/opensuse/art), especially http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art/blobs/master/boot/bootsplash.php Greetings, -- Javier Llorente