Any theme planned for FC 6

[Andy Shellam]

Also on the subject of the wiki, I've also customised the Gnome splash 
screen - when I get back to my Fedora PC at home I'll post the specs for 
the image so you can add them too.

Andy.


Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Andy Shellam wrote:
>> Actually, saying that I've just remembered it wasn't the boot screens 
>> per se I posted about, but the Grub boot loader screen (background.)  
>> I didn't get it sorted, the machine it's on is a dev box which I 
>> haven't logged on to for a couple of weeks - but AFAIK I'm still 
>> trying to find the answer to getting a custom Grub background working.
>
> I'm going to ask around and see if I can get more information about that.
>
>> What I DID accomplish was the rest of the RHGB screens, which are 
>> simply PNG images in the /usr/share/rhgb folder, and can be replaced 
>> by custom ones.
>> To create a custom "throbber" (the animation of a few circles 
>> spinning round), create a PNG image of 288x24 - then in that image 
>> you need 12 images of 24x24 placed side-by-side, so when viewed left 
>> to right - that's your animation.
>>
>> Replace the /usr/share/rhgb/throbber-anim.png image with your image, 
>> reboot and you're sorted!
>>
>> In Fedora, the /usr/share/rhgb/large-computer.png isn't used - there 
>> are 2 other image - one which is the fedora system logo (the bubbly 
>> f), the other is the word "fedora" in the bottom-right corner.  
>> Replace these with your own PNGs and bingo, you've got a nice 
>> customised system :)
>
> This is really helpful, thanks for writing this up!
>
> Would you mind if I added it to our wiki page [1] about all the 
> different parts of Fedora that can be customized?
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ThemingOverview
>
> ~m
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