F9 installation screenshot

Pavel Shevchuk stlwrt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 16:29:03 UTC 2008


>http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/photos/Redhat_Linux_Install_Kitchen.jpg
403 here

>I don't feel so good about the idea. Its giving me Windows XP
flashbacks *shudder*
Windows installer shows text. People don't read text, they want cool
slideshow with reflections, animations etc. And popular logos like
firefox and vlc cone will do magic, people will also notice other cool
apps like amarok and gimp

On 4/29/08, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:43 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>  > Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:04 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>  > >> We used to have the installer flip through a slideshow of images back in
>  > >> the old days -- does that code still exist? In that case it would be
>  > >> easy (albeit to late for F9) to have this.
>  > >
>  > > All the code is still there.  The difficulty is really in someone
>  > > stepping up to create the content
>  >
>  > We can start by setting a place (in the wiki?) listing the
>  > specification: PNG (can/should we use other formats? vectors?),
>  > resolution and probably the location (directory).
>
>
> Currently, the code looks for png only.  That could be changed if it
>  helped from a size perspective.  The directory is
>  currently /usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps/rnotes (and with lang-specific
>  dirs under there) but that's very able to be changed
>
>
>  Jeremy
>
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