[Mageia-artwork] 2011/week 17 review

[Anne nicolas]

2011/4/29 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:51:11 +0200, "Romain d'Alverny" <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:32, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 28 April 2011 11:25, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Yes. Why not use the unified grid-like background image
>> >> (Wall*-04.jpg)? (with or without the Mageia name on it) - there it
>> >> would be unified with the boot sequence.
>> >
>> > Romain, which grid image are you meaning? The current background or
>> > plymouth theme?
>>
>> This. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5425490722/in/photostream/
>
> I like this image very much also...
> Some points:
>
> - I understand that having some corporate image in the login (kdm, gdm)
>  window is desired, but don't forget that gdm or kdm hide the center of
>  the screen.
> - Continuity between boot steps is a pretty nice feature...
> - I don't know if it happens to more people, but I find complex backgrounds
>  very distracting and hurt my eyes. If there are big letters or extreme
>  color changes in the background it annoys me. I could never put a portrait
>  of my children as background as many people do ;).
>
> This is just a quick'n'dirty mockup:
> - plymouth: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga1.jp

Why do you want to change current one ? it's rather nice and just need
to remove beta mention

> - gdm: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga2.jpg
> - desktop background: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~magallon/mga/mga3.jpg
>
> So you fade smoothly from plymouth to gdm to default BG on login.
>
>
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