Help with FC6 Theme

spydrrrrr at gmail.com spydrrrrr at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 23:58:53 UTC 2006


Hey people in this thread....

Where did you get the logo's from? The official Fedora Core 5/6 logo
that you modified in this background?
How can I get them?

On 9/5/06, Diana Fong <dfong at redhat.com> wrote:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Máirín Duffy wrote:
> >> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >>> I admit of being lazy and not testing myself (it would require a
> >>> reboot of my computer :p ), the theming overview page list 256
> >>> colors for GRUB and cites a source
> >>> (http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/current/jayanth.html) which source
> >>> states 14 colors.
> >>
> >> I changed it to 256 colors last week. It originally said 14 but Diana
> >> told me it was really 256.
> >
> > I know you modified it by looking at the editing history so I assumed
> > you know more about the subject than me.
> > In the meantime I tried a 256 colors image and it was displayed using
> > a wrong color palette.
> >
> > It would be useful to have 256 colors, as I can easily see the
> > dithering in this image and probably a 256 colors image will not have
> > the problem:
> > http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6reGraphics/MolaBranch/final/fc6grub-splash.png
> >
> >
> > note: even with visible dithering, I think this is a very good GRUB
> > splash.
> >
> I return with answers.  I've been asking various people on the installer
> team and finally got a concrete answer from Jeremy Katz.
>
> "jeremy: iirc, it's 16 colors can be used but an xpm is 256 colors (I
> remember we had this confusion right before fc5)"
>
> So...
> - *GRUB splash is 16 colors* With one black and one white.  So you've
> only really got 14 colors.
> - Anaconda prompt (aka syslinux-splash) is ALSO 16 colors...One black,
> one white, AND one red.  Which leaves you with 13  other colors.
>
> Diana
>
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