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Idea #16786: Improving Ubuntu bootscreen

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #21: Professional-looking bootloader.
Written by mihai.tudor.popescu the 23 Dec 08 at 21:05. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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The Ubuntu bootscreen could use some graphics, don't you think? It would be more user-friendly and it could attract more users to Ubuntu. It could be a SUSE-like bootscreen with a Ubuntu graphical theme or sth like that.

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Written by mihai.tudor.popescu the 23 Dec 08 at 21:05.
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timnwells wrote on the 24 Dec 08 at 09:37
Not sure we should plaster Ubuntu all over the bootloader as it may be used for Windows as well. However I do think that the usplash bootup progress bar theme could be made to fit more with the login screens to keep a consistant look and feel and a nicer bootup experience.

dns_server wrote on the 24 Dec 08 at 13:16
You could try and propose a new idea to the art team.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork

sparky11 wrote on the 24 Dec 08 at 15:33
perhaps you mean something like grub gfx. click the link below to see a picture of what it looks like:
http://www.imgx.org/pfiles/4637/GFX%20Grub.png

If so, then my idea is quite similar:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7458/

andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 24 Dec 08 at 18:07
Anything to make the user less afraid of their computer blowing up or resorting to a command line.

And sparky11's link looks really good.

+1

ubunturules246865 wrote on the 24 Dec 08 at 18:45
Not necessary, but cool. +1.

Old_Kav wrote on the 29 Dec 08 at 17:23
You can change the bootscreen using usplash in start-up manager, although i'm currently using ubuntu 8.10 with Gnome GUI and have had trouble with usplash. I understand that with each ubuntu upgrade, uslpash upgrades also and uses themes differently. I'm about 80% sure that 8.10 uses Version 3 of usplash and it declines from there. I am having trouble finding new boot splash screens for version 3. I could make my own but I'm quite a lazy person, besides I decided that the text looks cool, nice and busy so I'm going to stick with that.

Anyways if you want to try.

#install Start Up Manager
#open terminal

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

#the goto System>Administration>StartUp-Manager
#Now goto http://gnome-look.org/ and pick one.


MarcioVinicius wrote on the 8 Jan 09 at 15:00
did any of you try Fedora 10?
I did, and even live session bootscreen and bootsplash is great. And it is not just because it's blue. We could do something like that... even with brown/orange theme.

I have some friends that don't like Linux, just because it's ugly (in their opinion). Actually, they don't know exactly how "Linux" looks like. They have an idea of strange and big icons or a blank screen with lot's of letters... and this is the first thing they see when Ubuntu starts.

I don't see Ubuntu community working on it. When we talk about themes, we just talk about Desktop theme. But there's a look of things whose graphics could be improved.

+1000

dael99 wrote on the 9 Jan 09 at 00:43
i don't know if debian is going to adopt something like grub GFX or grub 2

that would be the solution for this, because the ubuntu ghuys depends almost on debian resolutions.

we should make a space to talk about it on the ubuntu wiki.

but...
how stable is grub GFX??

anyway, i think this could be cool.

+1



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