Re: [gNewSense-art] grub theme needed

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:54:55AM -0500, Luis Felipe López Acevedo wrote:
> > In normal font, background is usually transparent.  With your splash image
> > I assume foreground would be white, but this does apply to the window 
> > borders
> > too (in your example they're black).  Would that be a problem?
> 
> That's ok. The border could be white too.

Ok

> > In highlight font, I think you used white as foreground but I'm not sure 
> > what
> > color did you use as background (dark-gray?).  Keep in mind you can't use 
> > any
> > color, for now you can only choose from the 16 color palette.  But if it's
> > important, I can improve the code that has this limitation.
> 
> Foreground is always white (normal and highlight). The background for
> highlighted options in the example image is black with 50% of opacity.
> If we can't use transparency, black is ok.

Ok (patches welcome if someone wants to improve that, it's not hard)

> If GRUB is what I see in the following image, I think we should use a
> slightly different theme for install CD; the same background image with
> "gNewSense GNU/Linux" added somewhere, so that people know what they are
> about to install.
> 
> http://blogs.koolwal.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lenny_install_splash.png

That's not GRUB, it's vesamenu (a program that's usually loaded by syslinux).

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