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== By Andre L.R.Ferreira ==

[http://cdd.debian-br.org/~si0ux/artwork/debian/usplash/usplash-etch-fixed.png]

svg source: [http://cdd.debian-br.org/~si0ux/artwork/debian/usplash/usplash-etch-fixed.tar.gz]

Note: DavidHärdeman has built a usplash package based on this image, see "usplash-theme-debian" below.

== General usplash theme information ==
= General usplash theme information =
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= usplash themes =
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 * Based on ideas and artwork by Andre L.R.Ferreira
 * Background SVG source: [http://cdd.debian-br.org/~si0ux/artwork/debian/usplash/usplash-etch-fixed.tar.gz]
 * Example:
[http://cdd.debian-br.org/~si0ux/artwork/debian/usplash/usplash-etch-fixed.png]
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 * see bug [http://bugs.debian.org/383248 #383248] for details.  * This theme is now in unstable, see [http://packages.debian.org/usplash-theme-debian usplash-theme-debian] for details.

= General usplash ideas =

General usplash theme information

  • usplash supports multiple resolutions in one theme (generally using backgrounds of different sizes).
  • usplash also supports drawing a progress bar...but the progress bar can be any type of image.
  • the usplash theme can draw a suitably sized solid-color box on demand for user input/output, so a part of the screen generally needs to be reserved for this.

usplash themes

usplash-theme-debian

[http://cdd.debian-br.org/~si0ux/artwork/debian/usplash/usplash-etch-fixed.png]

  • Uses the proposed GDM background (the one pictured above)
  • the progress bar is the text "Debian" centered on the screen gradually being drawn left-to-right by replacing one pixmap with another.
  • The same effect but in reverse is applied when shutting down.
  • This theme is now in unstable, see [http://packages.debian.org/usplash-theme-debian usplash-theme-debian] for details.

General usplash ideas

usplash-to-GDM transition

  • It would be very cool to have the same background in usplash as in GDM
  • it would appear as if the boot first takes place and the login box appears on top of the existing background once the boot has progressed far enough
  • The only discontiuity is the vt-switch from usplash to gdm...reducing it would probably be a post-Etch issue (this is not a usplash, gdm, or artwork issue, this is a driver issue, only with modesetting support in-kernel would this work)

Things that do not work

  • To have a partially transparent progress bar and making it more and more opaque as the boot progresses (alpha-blending is not supported, usplash images use an indexed palette).

Other proposals

  • Could the progress bar be the debian spiral "filling up" with color?