Review Request 126732: a plymouth theme for breeze
Martin Gräßlin
mgraesslin at kde.org
Thu Jan 14 07:07:00 UTC 2016
> On Jan. 13, 2016, 3:55 p.m., andreas kainz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for me it look to "boring". I'm working on a cooperate design from grub to the shutdown menue. and plymouth is one part of it.
> >
> > I made a grub theme and some mockups you can get everything in the share.kde.org and the forum thread.
> >
> > My idea was to have the plasma background on top an "transparent" black overlay. Big header on top on bottom a toolbar compare to the plasma standard panel and in the middle an vertical align element. For plymounth I would move in the middle the konqui-app-hardware-mascot https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/jXXooedZYlyUqkC with an rotating circle for the booting element. if the harddisk wil be scanned the konqui-app-hardware-mascot could play tetris and when you have to enter the key the mascot could be animated don't know. only an idea.
> >
> > my focus was same "style" for everything an useful (nice and good readable) background and in the center the stuff you need.
> >
> >
> > my draft files
> > https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/URqovLbvXdY9nD3
> > https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/ar8AoTUmMGNGOGf
> >
> > the related kde forum
> > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=130271&p=349237#p349237
>
> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> Note that the splash screen needs to be baked into the kernel image which means a huge wallpaper significantly blows it up and slows down startup, which is why a simple gradient is the best we could do.
>
> Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > Note that the splash screen needs to be baked into the kernel image
>
> You mean the initramfs, right? :P A massive wallpaper will definitely slow down boot with slow disks in any case (question is: how much? has anyone measured that?), so it's probably best to not get too crazy with the Plymouth theme ^^
>
> andreas kainz wrote:
> good to know can I prepare an design suggestion? I am not a big fan of this background wallpaper everywhere. my intension was to look what we hav now (login manager, splash screen).
>
> would it be a good idea to show more tycon konqui mascots? don't say to childish Android has the Android also everywhere and the mascots make plasma More personal and friendly in Addition the are awesome and way better then show everywhere the wallpaper.
>
> Eike Hein wrote:
> I'm not a fan of this Plymouth theme. I think the glow algorithm used isn't a good one and leads to pretty messy results (it looks tesselated inside the gear, the sharp angled corners cut through the glow, etc.). The gear itself is also not a neutral gray but slightly shifted into red and blue, and I don't really know how a purple gear fits.
>
> I don't think we should use the mascots on splashs, but generally speaking I love them.
>
> Marco Martin wrote:
> to me:
>
> Pros: it has a solid black background: this is a must in order to hope any smooth transition (you can always fade to the screen off color, the only hope to avoid flickering in some condition)
>
> Cons: yeah, a bit boring indeed, and the glow isn't super beautiful (would it be possible to have it blue without looking too tacky?) also i think it "must" be with the KDE logo, even tough I well know it is a very bad logo
Sharing my years old dream: flicker free boot from grub to session. To achieve this we need to have the same wallpaper everywhere.
- Martin
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On Jan. 13, 2016, 3:27 p.m., Jonathan Riddell wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 13, 2016, 3:27 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: breeze
>
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> Description
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> a plymouth theme for breeze
>
> based on kubuntu theme, it's one image with a fading in and out glow
> also a 16 bit fallback which is just the static k logo
> some cmake to look for the current plymouth theme diretory which could do with testing on other distros
> it doesn't try to set it as default theme or run update-initramfs, I think that can only be done by packagers
> suggestions for artwork welcome but changing the functionality (fade in and out glow) is not something I have the knowledge or time for
> I've not included a text fallback theme, the plymouth text theme seems very limited in functionality and the ubuntu-text theme is presumably distro specific
>
> http://weegie.edinburghlinux.co.uk/~jr/tmp/out-3.ogv
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>
> Diffs
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> CMakeLists.txt cdcc46e
> cmake/FindPlymouth.cmake PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/README PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/breeze.grub PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/breeze.plymouth.in PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/breeze.script PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/16bit/dot.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/16bit/logo.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/16bit/progress-rect.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/16bit/text-input.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/dot.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/logo-glow.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/logo.png PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/source.svgz PRE-CREATION
> plymouth/breeze/images/text-input.png PRE-CREATION
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126732/diff/
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>
> Testing
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>
> installed this
> set default.plymouth link to point to breeze.plymouth
> install plymouth-x11
> sudo plymouthd --debug --tty=`tty` --no-daemon
> sudo plymouth show-splash
> pretty K blinks
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan Riddell
>
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