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    <B>JA Magall&#243;n</B> 
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<PRE>On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:51:11 +0200, &quot;Romain d'Alverny&quot; &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:32, Donald Stewart &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">watersnowrock at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; On 28 April 2011 11:25, Romain d'Alverny &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Yes. Why not use the unified grid-like background image
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; (Wall*-04.jpg)? (with or without the Mageia name on it) - there it
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; would be unified with the boot sequence.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Romain, which grid image are you meaning? The current background or
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; plymouth theme?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> This. <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5425490722/in/photostream/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5425490722/in/photostream/</A>
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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:
- plymouth: <A HREF="http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga1.jpg">http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga1.jpg</A>
- gdm: <A HREF="http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga2.jpg">http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga2.jpg</A>
- desktop background: <A HREF="http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga3.jpg">http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga3.jpg</A>

So you fade smoothly from plymouth to gdm to default BG on login.


-- 
J.A. Magallon &lt;jamagallon()ono!com&gt;     \                 Winter is coming...
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