On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:41:55PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I've built the graphical installer using this improved banner. > It proved to be a bit more work than expected as I also had to modify the > Clearlooks theme so that the progress bar and selected items match the > new banner. It looked quite horrible in combination with the current > color as it is quite a bit different shade of red. > > I finally ended up with #C00040, which results in the following > screenshots: > http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp-guest/tmp/g-i_new_banner_select.png > http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp-guest/tmp/g-i_new_banner_progress.png > > There is one problem with implementing a banner with a gradient like this, > is that we currently use vga=788, which is 16-bit color depth. This makes > the banner look striped as can be seen in the screenshots. I've tried > booting with vga=789 (32-bit), but it seems that is not supported by the > VESA framebuffer we use... > > So, I'm a bit uncertain whether to proceed with the new banner or not. > Other opinions welcome. > > If we do continue, I'd like to see the GNU/Linux text repositioned a bit. > I think it would look better just a bit closer to the logo and probably > moved down a bit so it has the same baseline as "debian" (the black text, > not the shade).
I just gave a try to the graphical installer from d-i rc2, and I'm sad to see the banner didn't change a single bit since then :( Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
