Hi All,

After some great work we have Plymouth working on the SystemD-17 builds we are currently working on for the next release ( once the installer is ready ) .

We are looking at having a simple yet suitable plymouth theme for the iso - if you feel your plymouth design or have a good idea / concept for how we could do this please let us know!

Look forward to hearing your ideas / seeing any designs!

PMcD

Quick rough concept to get the ball rolling. Probably a nightmare to do though

It's an animated Gif with very low frame rate so it whizzes by - obviously it should be slower

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

i like it too, a guy called brian posted an idea for a plymouth design on the blog asking for a plymouth designer that i thought interesting, its about having the night sky then having an aurora come in, then we can have the aurora logo come in on top of that

There's a 4 part Plymouth theme guide at http://brej.org/blog/?category_name=plymouth if anyone is interested. It seems to be a sprite based system so aside from system resource issues it could be as complex as we want. Although if we want to keep it simple we could do something along the lines of:
http://brej.org/blog/wp-content/uploads ... /vizta.ogg

Attached is a couple more ideas stuck together, a bouncing ball, a fade in and fade out... anyway just some thoughts.

Re: Brian's idea. I'll mock something up and see how it goes

Maybe apply a scene incorporating our mascots?

Plymouth-Ball-anim.gif is good
but I think the ending should be light and maybe plant like things growing in the background or a rainbow instead of a little bar like in vizta showing how much its loaded

Right around when this thread was first active, I played around a bit with the idea of showing a moving aurora (not sure if I came up with it myself, or used the idea posted in this thread), and wrote a demo of that in HTML5 (to figure out if my idea would work). The demo really only shows the movement of the aurora itself, see the attached screenshot for how the theme looks.

I was recently inspired (probably related to activity starting to pick back up around here) to see if I could figure out how to make it into an actual Plymouth theme (I've not made one before), and spent about a night figuring out how to do it. It probably helped that I already know programming, and the guide MonkeyAbout linked to was fairly helpful.

I think it didn't end up looking too bad, considering; see the attached screenshot (I've been testing it with the Plymouth-on-X11 method). I cribbed the logo from the top of the forum design since the default one Plymouth would use on my EB4b1 system was a Debian one.

This isn't really a complete theme yet, as I haven't implemented some needed parts (dialogs asking for password etc), and it's rather a CPU hog at the moment (at least on my Eee), but I have some ideas that might improve that.

Source here.

OK, I've now improved the theme a bit - it now uses much less CPU, and shows how far along the boot process you are by moving the aurora from left to right, kinda like if the aurora was the marker in a progressbar.

Source in the same place (last post was rev. 1, we're now on rev. 6).

So; does anyone have any comments? suggestions? improvements?
Is there any chance this might be used by AuroraOS?

I like how the aurora moves from left to right and acts as a progress bar.

Yes, there would be possibility for this to be used in the build during the xsplash screen. I don't know what all the requirements are for that loading screen, but if you create something, we will see if it can get in. With systemd being used, I'm not sure how this will affect loading screens.

Well, finally got some time to work a bit more on it...


Oh, good... I wasn't really sure if that was a good idea or not, but figured it was neat enough to try it out to see if anyone liked it...


xsplash? I thought we were using Plymouth (hence topic title)? Or is that unrelated? (not really sure what xsplash is... from the name it sounds like it would be a boot splash screen though, which is what Plymouth is...)


Well, consider it created... at least mostly; I'm not sure I've seen all the requirements, but I believe I have implemented everything that's needed now (password prompts, question answering, displaying boot messages...), but if anyone finds something that needs fixing, I can try to take a further look at it.

Could use some more testing either way, the only machine I have for it is my Eee, on Aurora beta 0.5, which doesn't use Plymouth during boot, so I've only been able to test with the X11 plugin, which is necessarily not quite the same...


From what I've read, it just makes them more necessary, since you need an interface for daemons etc. that need to ask questions during boot (e.g. Apache asking for the password to its SSL key), which needs to be serialized and displayed properly.


In this version (rev. 10), messages are pushed up from the bottom, fading out after a few seconds (see screenshot, which also shows password entry in progress). Note that all those strings in the screenshot are for testing purposes only, they are provided by the init system (or in my case, my test script that kinda sorta acts like one for this purpose).


By the way, I've been copying some images and stuff from the script theme that comes in the plymouth-themes-script package - I don't believe this causes any license issues (since mine is GPL-2+ like that theme appears to be) - but IANAL, so I can only hope this is OK. If changes are needed, feel free to tell me.
Possibly related is my use of the Aurora logo from this forum - ideally, this shouldn't be included in the theme at all, but should be installed as the default logo for Plymouth (by the packagers, most likely), so that all the themes could use the same one.

I've moved the code to GitHub now, and have an update that I'll commit there soon that makes it look a bit better (at least IMO).

Source here: https://github.com/edorfaus/plymouth-theme-aurora

I tried to edit the above post, but was told I wasn't allowed to use the url BBcode anymore... So I'm making a new post instead.