[ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Collard
This is a suggestion since I have no talent in art When Ubuntu first boot with the Ubuntu and the few dots under I would recommend the following Have the word Ubuntu written inside the logo with the logo gradually increasing with the original color using each segment as Ubuntu loads the same cou

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Curtis
I'm pretty sure that's impossible, because I believe the current boot doesn't know the progress. That's why the dots actually loop and don't light up following the percentage of the OS loaded. From: show...@shaw.ca To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:25:53 -0700 Subject: [u

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Saleel Velankar
Currently its impossible but with plymouth? Problem is that some will have to code it... On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mark Curtis wrote: > I'm pretty sure that's impossible, because I believe the current boot > doesn't know the progress. That's why the dots actually loop and don't light > up

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Dana Goyette
Speaking of "not knowing progress", I find the current Plymouth behavior looks like a "deranged" progress bar, rather than like an "undefined" boot progress indicator. See my comments here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553386 (Since top-posting seems to be the norm

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Collard
Oh well we do what can be done Richard Collard show...@shaw.ca Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:32 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: > Currently its impossible but with plymouth? Problem is that some will > have to code it... > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mark Curti

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread iceman snowman
To be honest, I would be OK with just a graphical enchantment to the booting screen. Not to take it away from the logo + looping loading dots concept, but to make it visually more pleasing to look at. After all it's a process where the user is required to wait and just look at it, so it might as

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Nathan Beaumont
I would use an .svg version of the Ubuntu logo, for resizing issues. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM, iceman snowman wrote: > To be honest, I would be OK with just a graphical enchantment to the > booting screen. Not to take it away from the logo + looping loading dots > concept, but to make it vi

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion

2010-04-06 Thread Parag Agarwal
Natan, ubuntu should start mentioning the version the user is running. For eg. Gutsy gibbon or lucid lynux...(plz ignore spelling mistakes) it will make a great deal of difference as the users will eventually end up remembering the versions and it will create top of the mind recall for ubuntu... ju