Plymouth animated startup

[Charlie Brej]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Charlie Brej wrote:
>> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>> Charlie Brej wrote:
>>>> In Fedora 10 there will be a new graphical startup program replacing 
>>>> RHGB[1]. Its called Plymouth and it starts even earlier than rhgb.
>>>
>>> I understand you are at least a bit familiar with the way Plymouth 
>>> works, all of us could use some pointers, can you add a few 
>>> words/links to the ThemingOverview page?
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ThemingOverview#Plymouth
>>
>> Done. Ray Strode and others have left loads of good callback hooks and 
>> helper functions so the possibilities of plugins are pretty limitless.
> 
> That is a good start, but look at the other entries in the table, they 
> have listed file names, image resolutions, locations and so on, 
> something a designer can easily parse and check.
> 
> I understand the design based on plug-ins allow a lot of freedom, but 
> maybe some specs for the default plugin?
> 

Yeah, the problem is that the resolution can be anything from 320x240 to 
  1600x1200 at any ratio. The default plugins do not take a default 
image as they just use the fedora logo from 
/usr/share/pixmaps/fedora-logo.png. No other theme images are used and 
they can be any size we like. I am just working on a function to change 
the size of images so we include one and then stretch it to the 
resolution of the screen. If you want to pick a decent size for the 
image to use as a basis for the stretched images then that would be 
good. Also decide on whether we have a 5:4 image which has top and 
bottom cropped, or a 16:9 with left/right cropped.