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#1 2009-01-04 02:52:33

dmays
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[fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Hi there, I've made an fbsplash theme for Arch. It's minimal in decoration, which I felt was in line with Arch's KISS philosophy. Right now, it's 1280x1024 only, but I intend to support all common resolutions. Also, the silent splash has only a progress bar, but I intend to make a variation with scrolling system messages as well. I'm licensing this under the same license as Arch's official artwork, the creative commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike 3.0 license.
2s96mhf.png
Download: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22867

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the splash. smile

Edit: Now with preview and working download.
Edit2: Now on AUR, now everybody should be able to download it. smile If you like it, comment on it at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=96452.

Last edited by dmays (2009-01-04 04:56:52)

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#2 2009-01-04 03:03:30

tjwoosta
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

i get an error when trying to extract hmm

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

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#3 2009-01-04 03:10:31

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Weird, I just got the same error. Looks like the hosting service I'm using corrupted the file. I'll upload it to a different one in a couple minutes. Thanks for letting me know.

Edit: Everything's working now, redownload the package and try it.

Last edited by dmays (2009-01-04 03:28:07)

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#4 2009-01-04 03:32:51

cdwillis
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

This looks great, but the filefactory link says there are no open download links available. I'll check it out again in a bit.

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#5 2009-01-04 04:13:47

tjwoosta
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

it works for me now

thanks

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#6 2009-01-04 04:24:59

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

cdwillis wrote:

This looks great, but the filefactory link says there are no open download links available. I'll check it out again in a bit.

I'll upload the archive to a couple download sites then and link them all here, maybe one of them will work.

Edit: I went ahead and put it on the AUR instead. Now everyone should be able to download it.

Last edited by dmays (2009-01-04 04:56:14)

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#7 2009-01-16 21:01:14

thoughtcrime
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Looking really nice smile A scrolling text version would be awesome!


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#8 2009-01-26 15:47:12

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

thoughtcrime wrote:

Looking really nice smile A scrolling text version would be awesome!

I'll get around to making it eventually, just have to muster up the desire to do it. tongue

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#9 2009-02-05 02:03:42

kano
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

I like it!

If you could get all the standard resolutions supported (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200), then maybe we could finally replace the out-dated darch theme that is included in fbsplash smile


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#10 2009-02-05 02:47:37

Ranguvar
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Slightly off topic, but this will save you ages next time you need to upload something tongue Besides the few ads, I find it excellent (and I don't usually notice them, thanks to Adblock Plus).
http://www.rapidspread.com/

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#11 2009-02-10 16:16:11

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

kano wrote:

I like it!

If you could get all the standard resolutions supported (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200), then maybe we could finally replace the out-dated darch theme that is included in fbsplash smile

That would be pretty neat. I'll work on it eventually. tongue

Ranguvar wrote:

Slightly off topic, but this will save you ages next time you need to upload something tongue Besides the few ads, I find it excellent (and I don't usually notice them, thanks to Adblock Plus).
http://www.rapidspread.com/

Thanks for that, I'll check it out. I ended up just including the theme in the PKGBUILD tarball.

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#12 2009-04-07 22:54:30

ep2011
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

I'd definitely use it if it supported 1920x1200, though I doubt that would happen as it is not that common of a resolution. Also the scrolling text would be useful. Regardless, very clean look! Nice job.

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#13 2009-04-08 09:12:25

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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Could you link me to where you learned to make this ?  I'm curious to try making my own fbsplash (without the moving bits as I'm a newbie at graphics). 

TIA

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#14 2009-04-08 12:10:25

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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

I don't use splash things but this looks nice.


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#15 2009-04-11 17:34:39

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

ep2011 wrote:

I'd definitely use it if it supported 1920x1200, though I doubt that would happen as it is not that common of a resolution. Also the scrolling text would be useful. Regardless, very clean look! Nice job.

I just got a new higher-res monitor, so now I'm going to update the theme (finally!), and I'll be sure to add 1920x1200.

MoonSwan wrote:

Could you link me to where you learned to make this ?  I'm curious to try making my own fbsplash (without the moving bits as I'm a newbie at graphics).

TIA

http://www.bootsplash.org/Config I read this page, and used the DangerGirl bootsplash as a reference.

Dieter@be wrote:

I don't use splash things but this looks nice.

Thanks smile

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#16 2009-04-11 17:39:54

Xabre
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Hm, is there a chance for 1024x768 ?

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#17 2009-04-27 06:32:41

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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Looks nice !

I'm waiting for the high res wink

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#18 2009-05-07 01:52:49

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

Update: I have a few of the high-res splash images done. I lost my original .xcf, so I redid the highest-res image and then scaled that down into a few more sizes. I've been really busy with a new job and class, but I have one final exam left tomorrow and then I'm off for the summer, so I'll play around with the configs for the new sizes soon(ish) and then post the updated package to AUR.

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#19 2009-10-14 05:14:37

dmays
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Re: [fbsplash theme] arch-minimal

If anybody's interested in taking this over, send me a PM or something. I'll orphan the package in AUR and you can take care of it.

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