/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2006/05/12/#ubuntu-artwork.txt

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doctormohello al11:33
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lapohi12:23
OmegHey guys12:25
OmegThe wiki is confusing. I've got a mockup for a future usplash screen that I want to explain somewhere, but I don't know where I would put it.12:26
OmegI already sent it to the developers but they said that even if there would be consensus to make the change to my mock-up, it's much too late for Dapper... so I'd like to make a page for it so people can comment on it and possibly vote for its inclusion in Edgy.12:27
lapoOmeg: what do you mean by confusing, what do you wnat to do exactly?12:57
artnayisn't /Artwork sort of dead already? try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/Artwork01:02
artnaylapo: by confusing I'd say that artwork is really separated in wiki01:02
lapoyep that's true, some reorganization there would be nice01:03
artnayany of you have human as SVGs?01:05
lapoartnay: I don't think they provided any svgs01:06
artnaytoo bad01:06
lapouse tangerine :-)01:06
artnayI am, but I'd like to play with human as well01:07
OmegJust that I can't clearly see where I need to post my stuff.01:19
OmegOn Wikipedia, for example, it's not hard to decipher what a Wikiproject is or how to work for it.01:19
OmegAlso, the usplash page says that 14 colors are required. But in reality, there are 16 colors (it's just that two of those are reserved for the "ok" and "fail" messages). Or isn't that so?01:21
lapoit is01:22
OmegIsn't it so that the usplash artwork needs to be 640x400 as this is the default resolution for most computers? That's what I've been told at #ubuntu-devel.01:22
OmegOr does the development team make such adjustments?01:24
artnaymjg told me that it has to be 640x40001:28
OmegYeah, it does.01:29
artnayI've seen 640x480 mentioned somewhere on the wiki, but it's wrong01:29
OmegWhich is why, if you look at the screenshots at OSDIR, the splash page of the CD has a correctly scaled logo, and the usplash logo is squished vertically to about 80%.01:29
OmegIt looks bad, but it's necessary.01:29
OmegBut that's okay. It's easy to fix that.01:29
artnayOmeg: it seems that /Artwork has been forgotten or left unused for some reasons. as long as the main projects are done (remember when dapper artwork was announced?) outside it, the whole category is outdated, confusing and meaningless01:37
doctormohmm01:40
OmegI'm writing down my proposal so it can be linked to for Edgy.01:41
OmegI wish that Ubuntu's wiki was a MediaWiki, personally. It seems more inituitive to me.01:42
doctormoI've never seen a resolution of 640x400 where did the other 80 pixels go01:44
OmegApparently, all systems start up with 640x400 and then stretch it to the full screen size. So that's why the logo in usplash is squished; the screen is stretched back to have it look correct again. At the cost of some lost pixels.01:45
OmegWhich is unfortunate.01:45
Omeg640x400 is a standard resolution on most widescreen setups.01:45
artnayafaik, it's also a standard vga resolution01:47
doctormoVGA resolution is 640x48001:48
artnaythere's 640x350, 640x400, 640x480 etc.01:49
artnayIBM480 is the most common of those01:49
lapoIn my opinion usplash cannot look good enough, using x as redhat/fedora does would be better solution01:51
Omegusplash can look pretty good if you do it right.01:51
OmegGood enough, anyway.01:51
artnayumh, my bad. IBM400 doesn't seem to be a standard vga resolution, according to wikipedia01:51
artnaytime to refresh memory01:51
lapothe resolution is too low, and you have too few colore01:52
lapocolors01:52
doctormolapo: all you need is a program that uses the bios int 21 calls, get it up to 1024x768 with that :-)01:52
artnaylapo: have you tried framebuffer, other resolutions?01:52
artnayusplash is ok with 1024x768 for example01:52
artnayjust add vga=791 to bootline and see if your kernel/videocard supports it01:53
lapoyep 1024x768 should be cool, but it is not the default and who cares about changing it01:53
artnayif it does, add it to /boot/grub/menu.lst01:53
lapoyeah I know how to play with framebuffer01:53
artnaywell it's a pity that usplash lacks a proper gui01:53
lapobtw I have nvidia cards on most of my machine, and I have to disable it01:54
artnaywhich would allow a) to change the theme b) resolution etc.01:54
lapoartnay: goodlooking and working defaults would be better than the possibility to change them imho01:55
doctormolapo: nforce sucks01:56
artnaylapo: true, but I guess it's pretty difficult to get the needed information in order to setup usplash for maximum eyecandy01:56
artnaywhich leads to another issue... ;)01:57
lapoartnay: that's why I say the rh solution is better01:57
doctormoI thought you could create a number of splash screens ofdiffering resolutions and then let your boot program switch down further resolutions if they fail.01:57
artnaylapo: afaik suse and rh solutions are just another hacks to kernel and they won't even work on some older hardware01:57
lapoartnay: rh uses x server, so it works on every hw the x server can run01:58
artnayand canonical pretty much gives more value to older hw than great looking graphics01:58
artnayis this a new feature on fc5? haven't tried it yet01:59
lapoartnay: it is like this since rh8 I believe01:59
artnaythat would require to the bootsequence to load X among the most important functions01:59
artnay5.5 apollo was the last red hat I tried :)02:00
lapohey it has cde :-)02:00
artnayreally, I'm not an X hacker, but I bet mr. stone would love to use this techinique if it was a really working option02:01
artnaywmaker all the way02:01
lapouhm...right that was 4.x series02:01
lapothey uses it since ages so I think it is a working solution02:01
lapobtw I'm not an hacker so lemme do icons :-)02:02
artnayumh, strange. I was just betting there must be an achilles' heel in that :)02:02
artnayyou do your icons, I'll go catch some sun while it's shining. bye guys.02:04
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klepashowdy folks02:50
lapohey klepas03:02
klepashey lapo 03:05
klepashow's it going/03:05
lapofine thanks03:06
OmegHey guys. I was gone for a while but just took the time to finish that usplash proposal for Edgy. Available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/Artwork#preview03:13
OmegIf you have comments, please let me know about them (preferably there on the wiki).03:13
laponice03:14
OmegHmm... wiki seems to be a little slow. *stares at infinitely loading page while making a trivial change.*03:16
lapoferrari rules! :-)03:40
OmegFerrari?03:44
OmegThe car or... something else?03:44
lapof1, europe gp, 1st and 3rd03:44
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jendahello :)07:30
andreasnhi07:30
jendaI am from the Marketing team, and I'd like to ask if there are any volunteers among the art team to make us an Ubuntu Promotion poster07:31
jendait can be simple, but has to be top notch, and biiig ;)07:32
jendain .svg, so it's possible to change text easily.07:32
andreasnhm, I did some for the gnome marketing team07:32
jendaI'll post something on the forum, as soon as I have time to sketch it up...07:32
jenda(that is, ask for help there too - I myself am no artist :( )07:33
andreasnhttp://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/MarketingMaterial07:33
andreasnwhat do you need it for, some special event?07:33
andreasnperhaps you can send a request to the ubuntu-art list07:34
jendano special event, but simply great demand07:37
jendaI will ;)07:37
jendapeople want to hang out posters at their school etc.07:37
andreasnI see07:38
jendaand the MT should supply them with all that...07:38
andreasnhm, something rather simple then, like a logo, some short text and a url07:38
jendathe text, we can do07:42
jendaand it would probably involve even a bit of a longer text...07:42
jendaI say BIG logo, so that people notice, then a few big pieces of text that'll make the person walk up close and read teh fine print.07:43
jendaI'd say logo and nice background gradient pretty much does the trick, perhaps a few frames for text? Can be added, I suppose..07:44
andreasnif you are going to print them in a printing house, a gradient can be a bit tricky07:44
andreasnI had some problems with that when doing the gnome posters07:45
andreasnbetter fix some food, later!07:46
jendahmm07:46
jendawell, it's not a must07:46
jendaBTW, I registered #ubuntu-art to forward here07:47
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maxcohello, is someone could talk a little bit about ubuntu design ?11:27
maxco*could someone11:27
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