Nicu Buculei wrote:
Máirín Duffy wrote:
I came up with the attached after a couple days' work. Let me know
what you think! I attached the artwork as well as the xpm.gz. Copy it
over to /boot/grub and rename it splash.xpm.gz (back up yer old one if
you want) and reboot to check it out in action.
You wanted a less blue, grayish background. This splash is you moving
from gray to more blue or is a blue grub splash and a gray desktop
wallpaper.
Yeah. :( Let me explain why - we're kind of going with a slightly
blue-tinted water color in the latest wallpapers. So I tried to match
that. However, the more grey + blue I have, the worse the color indexing
comes out, so after much trial and error I kept getting closer and
closer and ended up with a very Fedora 3-esque blue bcakground - it's
closer to the logo colors so it limits the color palette making the
index image a bit smoother. :( What do you recommend?
One thing to note, I did this by indexing the inkscape-exported
full-color artwork in the gimp, and indexing down to 14 colors. That
was it. I remember in the past having to add black and white to
colormap slots 0 and 1 respectively, but grub seemed to not like that
this time. If you just use the 14 color pixmap, grub seems to deal
with it just fine.
Looking at the image I felt the urge to play with it :p Namely to try a
version where the logo and the waves are not centered, however I have a
problem: dithering. Which dithering method have you used?
I used Floyd-Steinberg (reduced color bleeding). I had to do a little
bit of manual tweaking in the center around the logo - maybe 20 pixels
replaced where way too bright pixels had shown up. I also did the 'TM'
letters manually so they'd be crisp and readabe.
Everything I try with GIMP does not match your result, even starting
from your original SVG (I get some ugly artifacts which I could clean
manually, but I don't think you did so). So what dithering method have
you used?
Yep, I did!! I cheated :)
I recently changed my monitor and went from 4:3 to widescreen. I know we
have here some hard limitation with the current version of GRUB and the
splash *must* be 640x480 (GRUB 2, which may be the solution, is still
away from us) *but* the logo looks ugly, it is deformed (we can't avoid
this, on that resolution on a widescreen the pixels are not square).
I think we can try a workaround: just not use the bubble logo, maybe put
just a sulfur crystal and leave it as that, unbranded (hoping the
deformation on the crystal is less noticeable).
Or is the corner case of GRUB on widescreen display shown only for a
couple of seconds when nobody is looking anyway too narrow and we can
live with a deformed logo?
You know, that is why I went with the 'fedora' logotype only in the F8
artwork and not the Fedora infinity logo. I did that one on my
widescreen monitor. I did this one on my normal 1024x768 monitor. ;)
It definitely seems a good idea to try it with just the sulphur crystal.
Grub should always say 'Fedora' in the kernel lines text above anyway so
it should be clear that this is Fedora.
~m
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