Op 28-10-12 18:29, Raymond Wooninck schreef:
On Sunday 28 October 2012 15:33:17 Oddball wrote:
Well, the bullets that show instead of the fonts inside the pw dialog box. The whole system uses these 'too big' dots everywhere. Me personally, I like little stars. Not dots, no matter how small they are. But smaller dots i like more than 'too big' dots. So it is the KDE Display Manager. That one has a separate logfile located in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/kdmrc. I am not sure however if you can indicate what kind of bullets you can have.
I have been looking into that, but changes made there had no effect... It is very possible i did something wrong...
Why than, tell me, is it impossible to find out how and where to do that? When we started to implement plymouth on openSUSE, we created this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Plymouth
There we kept record of the things missing, etc. That page also links to a very good site where the theming of plymouth is explained (http://brej.org/blog/?p=238). There the steps with regards to plymouth-set- default-theme is indicated.
Thanx 4 the tip, http://brej.org/blog/?p=238 i was at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Plymouth ,but the place is not up to date.
Ubuntu has 2(!) managers created for doing that. You think that is done because everybody wants, or likes the pre-installed standard? No it is done, because they want to be able, to simply, change their backgrounds when the system boots... that is all. But probably opensuse lacks the skills to create, or simpler, makes the KDE one work with openSUSE122, or below. Or there is no time, because it is not on the priority list. I don't know why suddenly now (when Plymouth is active) you are coming up with these type of complains. openSUSE has been using bootsplash before and that wasn't easy changeable either.
It was very long ago that is was changeable, that is correct.. But i am complaining because it has never been so ugly, so i want to get rid of it. That i am late, is because i temporary stopped testing, so i was not involved The feeling of being satisfied, is important, not only to me. Things that disturb me, and keep on doing that, i change. Sometimes it takes a long time before the goal is reached. The first screen, bootloader, i can live with for the moment, as i have changed that already. As the final splash-screen, after the loginmanager, is also made acceptable. Only the two in between: plymouth, and KDM3 are still very, very ugly. But plymouth is about to change. After that, rests only the loginmanager... Sincere thanks for your input here...
But as with every opensource, people are free to choice what they want including distribution. I am nothing more than just a simple Linux user, who happened to choose openSUSE as his distribution and decided to help out in his free time. openSUSE is a community distribution, so if people are willing to help out we could correct all these things.
How does ubunti arrange that than? Do they have so many volunteers? It can not be difficult to make the available 'managers' working for opensuse: They look in places to find their things to change, and a button triggers the command. So the only thing that has to be done is adapting the paths, i figure.
only if the user runs #mkinitrd, to generate a new 'initrd' used to boot the system. Indeed. No. the -R command runs the minitrd process for the user. You can check the parameters by running plymouth-set-default-theme --help
That is cool, and simple. 'plymouth-set-default-theme -R <theme-name>` and it can be done as a normal user?
Raymond
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