Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Michael Chang <mchang@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:27:52AM +0200, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2012 09.52:08 Michael Chang wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:53:23AM +0200, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
> > > Hi Michael,
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, April 18, 2012, Michael Chang <mchang@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > * Graphical boot menu:
> > > >
> > > >   Current plan is
> > > >
> > > >   1. list of all modes and use highest (from fbresolution or vbemode
> > > >   output) as default, for selection in options dialog
> > > >   2. use background image (instead of grub2's theme), default to the
> > > >   path of opensuse background .. need to decide the path and the art
> > > >   work, or could we reuse any Polymouth image, Raymond ?
> > >
> > > The background image use, should be coming from the openSUSE artwork. 
> > > This was 
> > > the case with the Grub/Splashy combination and should be followed through 
> > > with 
> > > Grub2/Splashy or Grub2/Plymouth. What I found is that Grub2 will 
> > > automatically 
> > > resize the image if it is not fitting.
> >
> > Yes. I agree with you that the background images has to be designed to
> > be part of Plymouth nation. This would make boot experience better.
> > The question is how do I/we contact the artwork people?
> >
> > The resizing to fit entire screen is good to me, or do you think it
> > has any problem? 
> >
> > > >   For 1, the concern for me is that fbresoltuin make yast2 bootloader
> > > >   to depend on splash package and vbemode may not detect some special
> > > >   native mode (but we can reuse vgamode in yast for detecting the
> > > >   modes).
> > >
> > > I think that the better way is to extract the fbresolution program (it is 
> > > only 
> > > a single file from the splash package and compile it inside the grub2 
> > > package. 
> > > You could then create a separate package (e.g. grub2-graphical) that 
> > > contains 
> > > this program and executes the necessary steps to get a graphical Grub2 
> > > screen. 
> >
> > The fbresolution would not be executed in package install scripts, it
> > would be executed by yast bootloader for getting the resolution then
> > asking perl bootloader to write the settings. This resolution,
> > together with other available vbe modes, would be listed in Grub'2
> > option dialog for selection.
> >
> > And yes, we may still need a separate package for holding Grub2 graphics
> > artwork and any stuff related with it. :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Raymond
>
> On the gitorious repo opensuse-art there the basics of the new wallpaper and 
> background.
> They made it with different kind of ratio for the different kind of screen 
> 16:10, 16:9, 5:4, 4:3
>
> using the high resolution, and with the result of fbresolution, pick the 
> right ratio image
> name it background and go.
>
> Artist last saturday, promise that I will have final artwork for saturday, 
> but we could already use what exist.

I am cloning the repo .. thanks a lot. With the materials I think now
I'm ready to go.

Regards,
Michael

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