olpc boot splash

[Peter Robinson]

>>>> I assume you don't want it to throb but to go with the progress? Also
>>>> you
>>>> would like the frames to be scaled to the size of the resolution of the
>>>> screen, or are you targeting just one res size?
>>>> A better starting point would be the "glow" plugin which does most of
>>>> what
>>>> you want. Does this do what you want it to do?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/olpc_plymouth.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> There is no scaling atm so it may be partly off screen.
>>
>> Your right, the scaling is off on my eeepc but its much more than I
>> achieved. Thanks! Looking at the solar plugin the graphics are scaled
>> to the lowest expect res screen (800x480) and is scaled up from there.
>> How does that work for widescreen vs standard as the circle would
>> become and oval at a guess :-P
>
> In the solar one there is one unscaled image, so the star is always the same
> size in all versions. The background, stars, flares etc are all auto
> generated.
>
> What you can do is to scale while keeping the ratio, centre it and make the
> background the same colour. The scaling would require some additions to the
> progress animation tools.
>
> Alternatively the frames can be clipped to just contain the middle parts and
> those can be centred and not scaled (so on large screens they may look
> smaller).
>
> Finally the more custom way of doing this is to just give the dot, arrow,
> Xman and the fedora remix as seperate small images and they can all be
> smoothly customly rotated and faded in. Generally the smaller and fewer the
> images the better, so this may be the best bet. I'll have a stab at the
> weekend if you like.

That would be great if you have the chance, it would take me a whole
lot more time that you it seems :-)

Cheers,
Peter