[Mageia-artwork] 2011/week 17 review

Fri Apr 29 00:55:38 CEST 2011

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:14:37 +0200, JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com> wrote:
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+> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:51:11 +0200, "Romain d'Alverny" <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 
+> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:32, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > > On 28 April 2011 11:25, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > >> Yes. Why not use the unified grid-like background image
+> > >> (Wall*-04.jpg)? (with or without the Mageia name on it) - there it
+> > >> would be unified with the boot sequence.
+> > >
+> > > Romain, which grid image are you meaning? The current background or
+> > > plymouth theme?
+> > 
+> > This. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5425490722/in/photostream/
+> 
+> I like this image very much also...
+> Some points:
+> 
+> - I understand that having some corporate image in the login (kdm, gdm)
+>   window is desired, but don't forget that gdm or kdm hide the center of
+>   the screen.
+> - Continuity between boot steps is a pretty nice feature...
+> - I don't know if it happens to more people, but I find complex backgrounds
+>   very distracting and hurt my eyes. If there are big letters or extreme
+>   color changes in the background it annoys me. I could never put a portrait
+>   of my children as background as many people do ;).
+> 
+> This is just a quick'n'dirty mockup:
+
+  - grub:     http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga0.jpg
+
+> - plymouth: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga1.jpg
+> - gdm: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga2.jpg
+> - desktop background: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga3.jpg
+> 
+> So you fade smoothly from plymouth to gdm to default BG on login.
+> 
+> 
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+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \                 Winter is coming...
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