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Written by retj the 11 Mar 08 at 18:08.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
The artwork should be present since grub screen appears until the default desktop is loaded, it should be clean, simple, beauty and easy to the eye... have you seen Mac OS X booting?
Well if you havent here are some videos:
1)Comparison UBUNTU - MAC OSX- WIN XP: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3vh91KIrY
2) MAC OS LEOPARD first boot:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7vwGap1gSko
Pay attention to the smoothness of the booting and simplicity, the idea is not to make an apple port, the videos are just references I wouldn't like to Ubuntu had an spinning circle, I'd like to see human theme since I choose which OS to boot, for example.
UPDATE: here's a possible blueprint taken from another idea: http://ubuntuforums.org/g/images/430615/1_rhgb.png
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programad wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 18:40
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Do you mean "brown everywhere"? :-)
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retj wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 18:52
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Actually they're going to change it so, I think if it is brown human theme, then brown everywhere, if its blue... blue since you turn on your pc.
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alvevind wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 19:52
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Totally agree! The screen should should look good from boot time. Get rid of the boring black "please wait while loading" screen. But do provide some kind of progress indicator (need not be very prominent). Add a hint of the Ubuntu flavor from the very start. (Bet the girls with pink theme would love to have a pink-booting system :-)
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dega1999 wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 20:10
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Good idea!
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Ilya wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 21:49
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The LiveCD, GRUB, boot and login screens should be the same.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 01:32
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I have never seen Mac OS X boot, if you have it, please upload video to YouTube or something...
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Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 01:54
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Maybe this can be automated?
Currently the theming is all over the place and changing one place does not affect any other. Although that kind of tweakability is great, most users just want different default colors. (pink, blue, brown, black)
What we should be having:
A: wallpaper - changes every release
B: color-theme - human (easily configurable by user!)
C: splash-canvas - human (we need to create this)
D: gtk-engine - clearlooks with B as default colors
E: kde-engine - oxygen with B as default colors
F: icon-theme - tango with color-filter using B
From these we could generate:
- grub-config using A, B
- bootsplash using A, B, C
- gdm-theme using A, B, C, D, F
- kdm-theme using A, B, C, E, F
- gnome-splash using B, C, F
- kde-splash using B, C, F
This way the most important customization people want, COLORS, will affect everything and keep it all one-look-one-feel. From boot to desktop.
Secondly, the art guys can create new engines, splash-canvas and wallpapers. All the specific appearance settings should be hidden under some 'advanced' button. By default, people change their 'engine', 'icon-theme' or 'colors' .. and this should affect everything from boot-to-finish.
Off course we need some magic unlock-button that turns your settings into system defaults.
I think it's also import to use the colors
From these images, the selected icon-theme, and gt
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retj wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 02:18
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that sound like a blueprint
why dont you put it as an idea?? ralf
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Eldmannen wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 02:47
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Apple has special BIOS firmware on their computers.
Plus, I watched video and it takes forever to boot, and its a pain to watch all that crap, its like watching a commercial everytime you start the computer.
No thanks!
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Eldmannen wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 02:49
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Ubuntu has a progress-bar which is much more useful than the dumb spinning thing in Mac OS X.
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johno wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 03:16
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I say bring back the scrolling text on boot and see what's going on!
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cmr wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 13:34
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Guys, there are honestly lots of things that need to be higher priority than vacuous cosmetic changes to the boot sequence. This suggestion isn't exactly polishing the brass on the Titanic, but it's woefully misguided.
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AbtZ wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 14:45
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Boot is OK, but I really would like to see smoother transitions once you logged in, instead of getting a black (or caramel, as it is in Ubuntu) background while you wait for X to load your wallpaper, Gnome-panel and so on.
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You can't really do anything while waiting anyway, so just adding some kind of fullscreen splash-screen while waiting should do the trick.
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salutis wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 09:28
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> The LiveCD, GRUB, boot and login screens should be the same.
Perfect idea!
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Redrazor39 wrote on the 26 Apr 08 at 00:48
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agreed w/above poster
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andersja wrote on the 14 May 08 at 12:10
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+1 innovative: let's blow new users away ... :-)
... that "macbook pro first boot leopard" video clip is VERY impressing.
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Auzy wrote on the 14 May 08 at 15:07
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Actually, I used to work at a Apple premium reseller, and the youtube clip doesn't do the leopard video justice. Until you see it on a 24" imac, you don't realise just how beautiful it is, and it does make a difference to users (I've seen them go wow around me as I set them up). In fact, all of them were impressed.
I'd love to have a startup video for Ubuntu, but unfortunately, it seems a few people out there will scream "bloat, waste of space", etc.
I agree with needing better conformity with the theme throughout the OS though
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Primož Papič wrote on the 14 May 08 at 16:28
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Good idea, just that it has to be done for all flavours of Ubuntu and also it has to automatically change when the theme is changed.
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