On 09/02/2015 04:24, Richard Nelson wrote:
> First forgive me for not taking the time to say "Thank you" to
> Juliette for the very, very nice theme!
Indeed!
> To me it seems very redundent to have multiple backgrounds for boot
> loaders. I am sure there is some technical reason, but the menuing can
> be clearly labeled such as Live, Grub, etc all use case, or even make
> your own if that is what you desire. But providing a baseline unified
> boot background for all cases to leverage would make sense. Now if
> booting live media _must_ require a different background (again not
> sure why) then have an installed boot background and a live background
> for theme submission. Furthermore it seems very logical to me to
> include them in some package, say desktop-base so other packages can
> avoid reinventing the wheel.
Firstly, it is not simply for live media that this image design is
wanted, it is also for the (official) install media.
The reason for requiring a different image to the one you point to is
not technical, it is merely cosmetic, but it is shown in a very
prominent place, where we want things to look good.
The grub splash image you're pointing to was so designed with the logos
towards the bottom to to the constraint of trying to keep them clear of
the content displayed by the otherwise default appearance of a grub2
menu (the menu list entries and the block of instructional text
underneath), which otherwise could cause readability issue due to poor
contrast if they overlapped. Thus this is perfect for an otherwise
unthemed "installed" copy of grub, as you end up with after installing
Debian, which you only see for a moment in booting your computer.
On the other hand we have the boot menus displayed when you load an
install or live disc. This default look isn't suitable here, although
functional, it would look overly/terribly messy as a disc boot menu
design. Here things are themed much more heavily to make things look
more clean and tidy. This also then allows us more freedom with
placement of logo components in the underlying splash image, leading to
an even greater result.