i do not know if there will ever be a web section for gentoo eye candies. if so, feel free to use these splash screen images. an extract of the msg i sent to gentoo-users: [cut] thus here are some more grub splash screens based on the "powered by" images i shamelessly ripped from http://www.gentoo.org/index-graphics.html (have i already told that i am really addicted to these nice, rendered 3d gentoo logos? :) http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd/gentoo/files/powered_by_gentoo_linux.xpm.gz (24 kb) http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd/gentoo/files/powered_by_gentoo_linux_small.xpm.gz (12 kb) http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd/gentoo/files/powered_by_gentoo_linux_big.xpm.gz (48 kb) just put them in your /boot/grub/ and adjust /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly here's a tgz archive containing the above files and the gimp source files: http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd/gentoo/files/powered_by_gentoo_linux-all_in_one.tar.gz (672 kb) now the (important) disclaimer: * they are not official * free use/whatever (as long as the rights of the "powered by" images are not violated -> i do not know about those rights. anybody?) * these splash screens do not really look as cool as the could as i had to reduce the color palette to 14 colors and the resolution is limited to 640x480. according to /usr/portage/sys-apps/grub/files/grub-0.91/grub-0.91-splashimagehelp.patch this should be the maximum allowed, if not please drop me a line. * there is a problem with the default color of the grub menu (currently one can not or hardly see which menu entry is selected when using these splash screens). somehow i can't make grub's 'color' option work on my box. (see bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046) regards dan
Maybe we should add these as an option, but I kinda like the default purple boot screen we have.
Grub hates my VIA chipsets so I have no way of testing. Punting.
Trying to clean out the docs-depricated so that I can close the catergory ...
