Re: [ART] Background image for GRUB

[Ludovic Courtès]

Felipe López <address@hidden> skribis:

> http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/static/temp/img/guix/2014-11-06-grub-dark-gnu-blue.png

Wonderful, works for me!

Now that you have access to the repository, perhaps you can create a
‘grub’ directory (in the guix-artwork.git repo), and add the SVGs for
this one?

> You have to set the following options in GRUB configuration:
>
> GRUB_GFXMODE
> GRUB_BACKGROUND
>
> I would provide one SVG version of the background for the following
> aspect ratios: 4:3, 16:10, 16:9. Then, you build PNG versions in
> specific sizes (for example, 1024x768, 1440x900, 1920x1080).
>
> Ideally, GRUB should be able to decide what GFXMODE and BACKGROUND to
> use for every screen. However, the last time I provided GRUB stuff for
> gNewSense (for GRUB legacy), GRUB would determine the display size and
> use the same background image (a 640x480 PNG) for all aspect ratios.
> This resulted in stretched background images, so usually we would make
> the image as simple as possible: no text or shapes, just a background
> with gradients.
>
> But, since Guix is using GRUB 2, which is supposed to be more flexible,
> we should at least try to see if it can use an appropriate image for a
> given display.

OK, we’ll see.

Thank you!

Ludo’.