Hi, i'm very busy this month, sorry for the delay!
I assume I am correct in thinking that you had no intention for any of > the boot screen (grub/syslinux/isolinux) images you have supplied to be > used in this way for install/live boot menus, but it might be helpful to > the discussion if you could please confirm this correct, i wasn't aware of this usage. Your image looks good, i'll add it to the archive on the lines artwork. Thank you very much for taking the time to create it! Regards, Juliette 2015-02-12 21:28 GMT+01:00 jnqnfe <jnq...@gmail.com>: > > On 11/02/2015 14:01, juliette Belin wrote: > > 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 ? > > Hi Juliette, > > Per the official artwork requirements you've supplied everything that > was asked for, however there is another image which is needed which > isn't listed in those requirements, and which I believe the Debian > d-i/cd teams seem to just be taking it upon themselves to create (and > not doing a perfect job of doing so imo). > > The image in question is the bootloader splash used for the boot menu of > the official install media, and which is also used by live CD media > produced with live-build. I have attached a screenshot > (wheezy-install.png) from a Wheezy install disc to be clear about what > image I am talking about. > > Daniel contacted you in relation to provisioning an updated Lines based > version of this image for use with the live-build tool (for which he is > the maintainer). > > I assume I am correct in thinking that you had no intention for any of > the boot screen (grub/syslinux/isolinux) images you have supplied to be > used in this way for install/live boot menus, but it might be helpful to > the discussion if you could please confirm this. > > As you can see at [1] and [2] the Debian d-i and cd teams have once > again taken the base theme assets and generated the required splash > image themselves for install disc use (I assume you did not create it > and send it to them privately). I have also attached a copy of these > including a png conversion of the d-i svg. > > I am not trying to be antagonistic over the Debian d-i/cd teams creating > this, though I am in favour of the theme artist doing it; this entire > discussion simply developed in relation to getting an updated image > available for live-build. > > As a perfectionist, I am not entirely happy with the images the d-i and > cd teams have produced, specifically with the 'GNU/Linux' text they have > added. If you look at the png conversion of the d-i svg, the letter > spacing gets messed up (presumably a bug in the conversion software, > which can be gotten around by converting the text to a path). The cd > team's png is different, better letter spacing, but it's too far to the > right, and otherwise still doesn't look right to me. > > On the 16th of last month, having only seen the cd team png, and > noticing that the svg used by live-build for Wheezy was different and > better in respect to the 'GNU/Linux' text (I have only just now > recognised that it is an exact copy of the d-i svg, previously I had > thought Daniel had made it), for a variety of reasons I took it upon > myself to produce a fresh svg of this. To be clear, I was not trying to > take any credit, I was just recreating their image as an svg (not > knowing about the d-i svg at that point) partly in order to fix their > messy 'GNU/Linux' text, and partly because an svg copy is wanted for > live-build. > > I have attached a copy of the image I created (jnqnfe.zip). Basically I > just took your grub svg, resized the background to exactly 640x480 (it > was a little large), moved and resized the logo components to the right > place/size (dropping the '8'), and recreated the 'GNU/Linux' text, which > I then converted to a path. > > I am not looking for any credit for the svg I produced. I am perfectly > happy for you to adopt it into your archive and claim the copyright, and > equally happy for you to recreate it yourself if you like. > > Unlike with Wheezy, Daniel seems to wants to use an image created > directly by the theme author this time around, and not the svg produced > by the d-i team, presumably so that he can properly attribute copyright > to the theme author. Currently he has adopted your syslinux image, on > the basis that this is the image you have supplied (and syslinux is used > for the live CD boot menu). I feel that this is completely the wrong > image to be useing for live Cd boot menus. I am writing a separate email > to him at the same time as this one to argue against use of that image. > It would perhaps be helpful if you could recreate the image I made, or > at least adopt ownership of mine if that is acceptable, in order to help > address the copyright issue and allow what I feel to be the correct > image to be used in live-build. > > I will try to see If I can get the artwork requirements amended to > include creation of this image to avoid all of this next time around. > > Regards, > jnqnfe > > [1] > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/boot/x86/pics/ > [2] > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz >
