[CentOS-devel] Distro Theming

Wed Jun 25 19:47:39 UTC 2008
Tim Verhoeven <tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Alain Reguera Delgado
<alain.reguera at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> What do you think of adding some of modern-CentOS design into our
> CentOS distro ?
>
> Take a look at: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/DistroDesign/modern-CentOS
>
> I would like to collect comments of people how really know what things
> must be changed, dimensions, CentOS Look and Feel, and stuff like
> that, in order to focus the actions over what is really needed.
>
> Here we propose:
>  1. Anaconda new designs (slides, splash, etc).
>  1. A Wallpaper
>  1. A LoginScreen
>  1. A GRUB Boot Image.
>
> I would like to build that page like a Template with useful
> information about the CentOS key elements that need to be changed, and
> how they could be changed (note that some elements like rhgb need
> modifications on a file splash.c that a "find / -iname splash.c"
> did'nt find, maybe that's on my pc only). Also how could we test an
> anaconda new design ? to make fixes and adjustments.
>
> Anything else you consider useful is welcome.
>
> This initial work is based on:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ThemingOverview

This looks very good :-) Great work. I would not mind to see this go into 5.3.

Regards,
Tim

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