Aurélien COUDERC <zecoucou@free.fr> (2016-11-10): > Is there any currently meaningful restriction remaining on the images > color palette / depth for these different elements (rootskel-gtk, > debian-installer) ? > > The wiki for the Debian theme proposals requirements mentions complicated things like : > - Isolinux: 640x300px, 4bit color depth (means: 16 colors). View Make Sys Image. > - Syslinux: 640x300px, 16bit color depth (means: 65,536 colors), in PNG format. > - Debian Installer > A picture with 800x75px, 16bit (65536 colors). > > But looking at recent packages, the PNG are just generated with > rsvg-convert that produces plain 24-bit images. I think we'll stay with this (the current conversion) for the time being. That might explain why the gradients aren't too much good looking depending on the virt-stuff used, or depending on the hardware, because they get rather “sharp”, which maybe could have been prevented by using a smaller color depth in the first place. But what do I know about that? ;) > A quick look at the iso boot menu or debian installer banner gradients > tells that it’s not 16 bit / 65536 colors. > > Can you confirm we don’t need to keep these restrictions so we can > update the requirements ? I'd suggest keeping those under some kind of “old requirements, not currently [$DATE] enforced” for reference, in case we need to reinstate them. Or drop them entirely (we have a revision history right?) if you feel confident enough. KiBi.
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