Boot Splash

[Jerry]

Looks nice Ralphy

[ralphy]

My 2 cents.

1- I propose something animated but not precisely a progress bar.
2- I'd use a dark background since it makes it blend better with a PC boot process/grub, etc. (although this could be considered a personal preference)

Here is my liteboot:

[firenice03]

You can upload the JPG to http://imgur.com.. Then copy and paste the BBC code into the forum..  If you ok with this route...

[TheDead]

Back from shoveling snow... still alive!

Well, I tried to PM you but looks like you can't put attachment in those, so I'm replying here.

Most of my recent work is in NDA (i.e. contracted and copyrighted by companies). But here's what is in my old resume. But, I guess the best way to show you what I can do would be to ask me for something and see for yourself. Yep... that stuff is really old.

Its not for me but even if they are unused my resume include pictures for companies so... copyright and other intellectual property rights and are the exclusive property of their respective owners. You know, just to be on the safe side... Hehe, I dont usually post in forums 

***ADD :  Darnit, jpg attachements are not permitted here   Like a certain Scotty would say : I can't do it ciptin! I don't have the power! PM me if you have a dropbox, hightail or other folder I can send that to.

-TheDead

[Jerry]

I'm a graphics designer and I have a few ideas for an infinite loading /splash screen if your interested.

Do you have some previous work we could look at? Thank you.

[TheDead]

Hello people of Linux Lite,

I too miss the 2.8 progress bar a lot. *cry*
I'm a graphics designer and I have a few ideas for an infinite loading /spash screen if your interested.
But, could it be an animated GIF/PNG or multiple BMP/PNG files?

Othrewise, I'm not a programmer but if it is CSS3, you could use your loading "cube" from the download section of your site. Looks like this one but I guess you could change colors for black and white or version related (yellow-ish for Citrine): https://codepen.io/wenbin5243/pen/tcAeJ
I found it at a bunch of places on the web so theres maybe copyrights/usage issue.

-TheDead

[Jerry]

No hurry on this, a big change from a static boot to an animated one wouldn't be looked at until Series 4.x Good luck and thank you

[technomancer]

OK I will research this. A quick google search i found this  http://askubuntu.com/questions/84045/how-do-i-run-a-custom-animated-bootscreen#85329
Assistance from a dev would be a great help, getting my feet wet on this...
But I definitely want to give it my all.
3am here, so I will continue tomorrow.

Sorry for the long delay in getting this going, I have been busy at work lately due to holidays coming up. I have some preliminary tests I am running to get
a boot-splash working and have been researching different methods to implement it without adding more work for the Dev team and Jerry. I hope to have a working example
by mid December, which I will offer a couple different styles of the LinuxLite feather as the boot splash progress indicator.

[technomancer]

OK I will research this. A quick google search i found this  http://askubuntu.com/questions/84045/how-do-i-run-a-custom-animated-bootscreen#85329
Assistance from a dev would be a great help, getting my feet wet on this...
But I definitely want to give it my all.
3am here, so I will continue tomorrow.

[Jerry]

Since accurately representing progress is difficult, my suggestion would be an animated icon or LinuxLite feather that fades in and out as booting is in progress.
I am not sure how complicated that would be to implement, however i have seen multiple .bmp images of varying gradients cycled to provide animation.

I'm open to that if you can provide a working example for me to look at.

[technomancer]

Since accurately representing progress is difficult, my suggestion would be an animated icon or LinuxLite feather that fades in and out as booting is in progress.
I am not sure how complicated that would be to implement, however i have seen multiple .bmp images of varying gradients cycled to provide animation.

[Jerry]

Getting this to perfectly sync with the actual boot process is extremely difficult. I haven't seen it done yet in Linux, even Mint doesn't have a progress bar.

[rijnsma]

I use the listing of the bootproces.
I went to /etc/default/grub, deleted 'quiet' (I think not necessary; it is the listing on screen), changed 'splash' in 'nosplash', saved the file and did 'sudo update-grub'. That made it persistent.
Carefull!

[jerryferreira]

Agreed.  Version 2.8 did and when I installed 3.0, I wasn't sure what was happening.  Can be unsettling for a beginner.

should be simple,just remove the feather or a simple progress bar,there some nice one out there,look at windows 7 settings setup

[DGMurdockIII]

I agree there needs to be something to show that progress being made ie the computer is not locked up