Re: gfxmenu available in experimental

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:17:01AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:43:57 +0100
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:17:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
> > Serbinenko wrote:
> > > Example menu is available at
> > > http://grub.gibibit.com/files/overlay_2009-07-19.tar.gz
> > 
> > Colin, we would need to know more details about the theme support
> > files.
> > 
> > Are all the theme files in that tarball written by you?  Which images
> > did you make yourself?  I'm specially interested in the terminal-box
> > ones.
> 
> It would be easier perhaps if I list the elements that I did not create:
> 
> - The 'winter' background.
> - The Ubuntu theme logo image/text.

What about the icons?  I assume you didn't create the MS Windows logo ;-)

> Everything else I created using the GIMP and Inkscape, primarily.  The
> terminal-box images for the 'winter' theme were created in Inkscape (I
> think the theme source tarball includes the SVG source file, which is
> exported to PNG files in slices by a shell script).  In Inkscape I
> defined the slices so that the shell script can export them by name.

We would need this SVG source (it isn't in the tarball).  Do you still have
it?

> I certainly intend them to be included under my contributor agreement,

Great!  I tried to adapt them to make something simpler that would be added
to GRUB tree, but I'm totally incompetent to make beautiful artwork.  Our
current options are:

  - Make a simple, unifont-based "GRUB theme" that could be added to our
    official tree and serve as reference for others.  It should include the
    basic graphical elements like terminal-box and linear/circular counters.

  - Have Debian include a package of themes for GRUB, based on your work.
    For that we would require that the parts you made are separated in a
    new tarball, and a suitable license be included.

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