Hi! Just wondering if any of you thought about having a grub theme that follows the new breeze style. We have the new lock screen that looks great, presumably an ssdm theme is on the way, but I haven't heard anything about grub. Is it worth it? It only shows for a couple of seconds at boot, but it might give a more unified look to the system (like opensuse does BTW).

Sounds cool to me. I have no idea how to make a grub theme, but if anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I say go for it!

alake wrote:Sounds cool to me. I have no idea how to make a grub theme, but if anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I say go for it!

I don't have the knowledge nor the time to do this, but I thought that someone might be interested too. I know that it is possible to do something quite nice, like Malcer did here:

http://malcer.deviantart.com/art/Dharma-GRUB2-theme-323177583

i used this grub theme its from chakra os. i always thought the grub theme is from the distribution. but maybe when we use the distribution Logo, ...

Hmmm Rosa has a rather nice wiki about create grub themes.
http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Gru ... _text_file

in german:

http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/GRUB_2/Ausse ... figuration

you will get the Dharma theme from the chakra repository.

http://rsync.chakraos.org/core/x86_64/

as you can read in the tutorials, something is possible, but it need time to make the final theme so I'd prefer to make some mockups and after that we will see how we can make a theme from the mockup. I hope I have the time to make the final grub theme, but first be welcomed to make some mockups

Grub theme guide

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B82343F ... edit?pli=1

Not that it wouldn't be nice to have, but is there really any point in this?

I'd think that most times, distros would put in their own Grub theme. Would they be interested in keeping a KDE-specific Grub theme?

I'm also scaptic, but when we start at grub, we should have a theme from grub via plymouth > login screen > splash screen > (standard wallpaper) > log screen > shutdown than we have a consistent cooperate design and of course we need an different distribution part (logo, colour, ...)

veqz wrote:Not that it wouldn't be nice to have, but is there really any point in this?

I'd think that most times, distros would put in their own Grub theme. Would they be interested in keeping a KDE-specific Grub theme?

Well, the same can be said about login screen and boot splash. Those are areas where distros like to apply their own branding to as well. Actually I think distros are more likely to ship their own boot splashes and display manager themes than their own GRUB themes because
a) They are usually displayed longer
b) They can be made to look nicer
That doesn't mean we should not provide our own themes, though.

The hope is that if distributions like them, they might use modified versions of them instead of creating them from scratch.

Bear in mind that multi-DE distros will try to have a consistent branding across all variants (Ubuntu's an exception, look at Fedora, openSUSE, etc.) so this may not be used downstream. OTOH, single-DE distros may opt for variants of this.

einar wrote:Bear in mind that multi-DE distros will try to have a consistent branding across all variants (Ubuntu's an exception, look at Fedora, openSUSE, etc.) so this may not be used downstream. OTOH, single-DE distros may opt for variants of this.

Again, this is the same as with bootsplash and display manager themes, isn't it? These are not any more likely to be used by multi-DE-distros than a grub theme, are they?
And since the VDG has provided DM and boosplash themes, I see no reason why we should not provide a GRUB theme.

colomar wrote:

einar wrote:Bear in mind that multi-DE distros will try to have a consistent branding across all variants (Ubuntu's an exception, look at Fedora, openSUSE, etc.) so this may not be used downstream. OTOH, single-DE distros may opt for variants of this.

Again, this is the same as with bootsplash and display manager themes, isn't it? These are not any more likely to be used by multi-DE-distros than a grub theme, are they?
And since the VDG has provided DM and boosplash themes, I see no reason why we should not provide a GRUB theme.

What does the boots plash theme look like? I can't remember we made one.

Sogatori wrote:What does the boots plash theme look like? I can't remember we made one.

It wasn't the typical community effort, but apachelogger made one at some point, with input from Jens or Andrew I guess. There is a video of an early version on Youtube, don't know how similar that is to the current status