Hi, I just upload a new archive with the svg isolinux file and the lock screen that I have forgotten to add few weeks ago. Could you please tell me again what is needed to complete the theme ? thank you
regards, Juliette 2015-02-09 7:00 GMT+01:00 jnqnfe <jnq...@gmail.com>: > > 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. >
