IMO the concept in Frank Schoep's minimalistic usplash theme is excellent – definitely worth considering as the default for dapper.
Users are always able to go to a virtual console, remove "splash" from the kernel command line or install another usplash theme if they want to see the messages. There are some things that that should be fixed or changed, though: • Currently all the other messages are invisible, but "failed" is visible – not what failed, just the word "failed". • Either 1) use black as the color 0 in the palette or 2) remove the rounded corners. Many laptops that show 640x400 centered in a bigger monitor fill the border around it with the color 0. When that is the case, the user sees four strange chunks of black pixels in the corners of (otherwise indistinguishable) 640x400 area in the middle. • Everyone probably has her own opinion about this, but IMHO the progress bar colors should be switched (white bar on a brown background). • It wouldn't hurt to experiment with different shades for the palette. Keep up the good work. :-) -- Regression in usplash artwork https://launchpad.net/bugs/44339 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
