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
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. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org