On 09/02/2015 04:24, Richard Nelson wrote: > First forgive me for not taking the time to say "Thank you" to > Juliette for the very, very nice theme! Indeed!
> To me it seems very redundent to have multiple backgrounds for boot > loaders. I am sure there is some technical reason, but the menuing can > be clearly labeled such as Live, Grub, etc all use case, or even make > your own if that is what you desire. But providing a baseline unified > boot background for all cases to leverage would make sense. Now if > booting live media _must_ require a different background (again not > sure why) then have an installed boot background and a live background > for theme submission. Furthermore it seems very logical to me to > include them in some package, say desktop-base so other packages can > avoid reinventing the wheel. Firstly, it is not simply for live media that this image design is wanted, it is also for the (official) install media. The reason for requiring a different image to the one you point to is not technical, it is merely cosmetic, but it is shown in a very prominent place, where we want things to look good. The grub splash image you're pointing to was so designed with the logos towards the bottom to to the constraint of trying to keep them clear of the content displayed by the otherwise default appearance of a grub2 menu (the menu list entries and the block of instructional text underneath), which otherwise could cause readability issue due to poor contrast if they overlapped. Thus this is perfect for an otherwise unthemed "installed" copy of grub, as you end up with after installing Debian, which you only see for a moment in booting your computer. On the other hand we have the boot menus displayed when you load an install or live disc. This default look isn't suitable here, although functional, it would look overly/terribly messy as a disc boot menu design. Here things are themed much more heavily to make things look more clean and tidy. This also then allows us more freedom with placement of logo components in the underlying splash image, leading to an even greater result. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
