olpc boot splash

[Charlie Brej]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
>>> 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.