[opensuse-artwork] The MOST HORRIBLE THING ever about 12.2
Heya folks, Reading the ever-increasing threads on -project about things-which-don't- make-me-happy made me realize something terrible: amidst the huge discussions about systemd, USB support and release cycles, something crucial got lost. The one thing that allows us to say "we're the FUN distro" when people point out the tiring flamewars: "We've got christmas tuxes in December!" But... with the move to GRUB2, we've lost this crucial advantage over the thundering herd of Beefy Fedora's and root-owning Ubuntu's. What will we do to counteract this? I would hope we can get a Plymouth splash with some Christmassy goodness pushed to 12.2 updates before it is December... Maybe a change of the default wallpaper, too. (as a matter of fact, we should do more of this stuff. I like crazy and it makes people thing we're nuts. So that's good in my book) /Jos
Hmmm... this got me thinking... You know with Plymouth we can actually tell the splash to change depending on time and date... So theoretically we could have a different splash background for each season, and even the time of day (doesn't make much sense there, but possible none the less). I think this plays well with the whole restyling effort. Lets have this as a *feature request*, OK? Best Regards, Eugene Trounev [it-s] On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
Heya folks,
Reading the ever-increasing threads on -project about things-which-don't- make-me-happy made me realize something terrible: amidst the huge discussions about systemd, USB support and release cycles, something crucial got lost.
The one thing that allows us to say "we're the FUN distro" when people point out the tiring flamewars: "We've got christmas tuxes in December!"
But... with the move to GRUB2, we've lost this crucial advantage over the thundering herd of Beefy Fedora's and root-owning Ubuntu's.
What will we do to counteract this?
I would hope we can get a Plymouth splash with some Christmassy goodness pushed to 12.2 updates before it is December... Maybe a change of the default wallpaper, too.
(as a matter of fact, we should do more of this stuff. I like crazy and it makes people thing we're nuts. So that's good in my book)
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On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:19:23 Eugene Trounev wrote:
Hmmm... this got me thinking... You know with Plymouth we can actually tell the splash to change depending on time and date... So theoretically we could have a different splash background for each season, and even the time of day (doesn't make much sense there, but possible none the less).
You mean I could have a splash background that shows the moon and stars at night shining only sleeping geeko - and something different during day time? Cool ;)
I think this plays well with the whole restyling effort. Lets have this as a *feature request*, OK?
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On Wednesday 26 September 2012 09:58:31 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:19:23 Eugene Trounev wrote:
Hmmm... this got me thinking... You know with Plymouth we can actually tell the splash to change depending on time and date... So theoretically we could have a different splash background for each season, and even the time of day (doesn't make much sense there, but possible none the less).
You mean I could have a splash background that shows the moon and stars at night shining only sleeping geeko - and something different during day time? Cool ;) +10000000000
I think this plays well with the whole restyling effort. Lets have this as a *feature request*, OK?
Andreas
On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 16:03 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
(as a matter of fact, we should do more of this stuff. I like crazy and it makes people thing we're nuts. So that's good in my book)
I never think it, I know it. :-) Grub2 artwork, as I understand it, got rushed through with little review. As a consequence, it is barely readable, apparently not just to blind bats like me, when you try to do any advanced stuff in Grub2. For example, I had a VM session of 12.2 and it was broken, so I needed to go into Grub2 to switch to command line to do some troubleshooting. But the problem was I couldn't even read the text in grub2 in order to navigate around. I'm told I'm not the only one facing this problem. So, my suggestion is that in addition to pushing out a Christmasy splash, we also quickly review the current usability of Grub2 and fix it for improved legibility. Especially since we don't know exactly when 12.3 (or 13.1) will be released and a "we'll fix it in next release" is going to be problematic for some of us. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org
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