[Bug 18813] please improve the bootsplash artwork

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------- Additional Comments From svloon at xs4all.nl  2005-11-24 16:42 UTC -------
Sure, I'll clarify.

Check out these screenshots of (Open)SUSE 10. I have only tested an OpenSUSE
alpha for a day or two so I hope I'm correct on this:
OpenSUSE bootsplash theme =
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=464&slide=2
OpenSUSE login theme (KDM?) =
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=464&slide=21
OpenSUSE KDE splash screen =
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=464&slide=42

Analysis:

The bootsplash, login, and splash screen themes are very consistent. All of the
themes have blue in them, and the green chameleon logo. The transition between
respectivily the bootsplash, login and splashscreen is great, because they are
so consistent. You'd nearly think it is just one theme, not three, because they
are so consistent and the transition between them is done so nicely. To
symbolize the loading in the bootsplash and splashscreen themes, there are some
icons which are displayed, at a certain loading stage a certain icon flashes.
All of the themes are "high-res" (i.e. good image quality, not as pixelated as
Ubuntu's usplash theme) To better understand what I mean, maybe try OpenSUSE out
for yourself. The OpenSUSE artwork has a great style.

Compare to Ubuntu's theming. Bootsplash, GDM and splashscreen themes are NOT
consistent. Bootsplash theme has a black background, GDM theme has the light
brown Ubuntu background color, which fits better. The bootsplash theme is
pixelated, low res, I can nearly count the pixels. The bootsplash has a simple,
crude loading progress bar. It has the cryptic technobabble, like "Initializing
modules" and "Cleaning up ifupdown". Not stylish.

Suggestion:

Copy the OpenSUSE way of theming, but in the Ubuntu style. Make the bootsplash
theme high-res, not pixelated. Get rid of the technobabble and simple progress
bar (or give us a beefed up more elegant progress bar), instead display some
flashing icons or whatever to symbolize the loading process. Make the theming
consistent, make the difference between bootsplash, login and splashscreen as
small as possible, give them the same light brown background color and display
the same Ubuntu logo in all of them. The three themes should make a flawless
transition to each other, like in SUSE. Also notice that the KDE splashscreen in
OpenSUSE is screen filling. Do the same in Ubuntu, make a screen filling splash
screen. Right now you see the GNOME desktop after the login with a splash
screen, and you can see the desktop is still loading, not very nice to see (for
example, at my PC it takes a while before the solid background color on my
desktop is replaced with my wallpaper during loading, which is ugly), that's why
the splashscreen should be screen filling.

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