Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:01 +0200, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
> Hi Roger
>
> On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > WHat are the capabilities of Plymouth? That is, how fancy can we get for
> > a bootsplash? Ful animation, or transitions for example?
>
> Well, there are some limitations, but that is more in the type of graphics 
> files that can be used. At the moment the limitation is that only PNG files 
> are accepted by Plymouth. 
>
> The plymouth package comes with a number of plugins that can be used inside a 
> theme. There are many themes available on websites like kde-look.org and 
> gnome-look.org. 
>
> The most powerfull plugin is the script plugin, which allows you to create a 
> script in which you can do almost anything. The current openSUSE branding 
> utilizes the script plugin and features the display of a background, a logo, 
> a 
> progress bar and also a couple of white spots that are moving around until 
> they get together as a single point. The theme defines how Plymouth will 
> interact with the user, so it is important that the script covers areas like 
> password requests, text display, etc. 
>
> For 12.2 the target would be to get more or less the standard splashy 
> bootscreen in place based on the 12.2 artwork. But for the openSUSE release 
> after that, we could define a whole new bootsplash with animations, etc. 
>
> Regards
>
> Raymond
That pretty much covers what I was wondering, thank you! SO 12.3 or w/e
its called can have all sorts of insane and gaudy crap, sweet! Give it
some whiz-bang to show off to the Windows slaves.

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