Any theme planned for FC 6

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Andy,

Andy Shellam wrote:
> Actually, saying that I've just remembered it wasn't the boot screens 
> per se I posted about, but the Grub boot loader screen (background.)  I 
> didn't get it sorted, the machine it's on is a dev box which I haven't 
> logged on to for a couple of weeks - but AFAIK I'm still trying to find 
> the answer to getting a custom Grub background working.

I'm going to ask around and see if I can get more information about that.

> What I DID accomplish was the rest of the RHGB screens, which are simply 
> PNG images in the /usr/share/rhgb folder, and can be replaced by custom 
> ones.
> To create a custom "throbber" (the animation of a few circles spinning 
> round), create a PNG image of 288x24 - then in that image you need 12 
> images of 24x24 placed side-by-side, so when viewed left to right - 
> that's your animation.
> 
> Replace the /usr/share/rhgb/throbber-anim.png image with your image, 
> reboot and you're sorted!
> 
> In Fedora, the /usr/share/rhgb/large-computer.png isn't used - there are 
> 2 other image - one which is the fedora system logo (the bubbly f), the 
> other is the word "fedora" in the bottom-right corner.  Replace these 
> with your own PNGs and bingo, you've got a nice customised system :)

This is really helpful, thanks for writing this up!

Would you mind if I added it to our wiki page [1] about all the 
different parts of Fedora that can be customized?

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ThemingOverview

~m