A GRUB2 Theme For Ubuntu 13.04

[cecilpierce]

Just installed the new theme, looks nice.
Wish someone would make icons for all distros, I made a few but its a pain when your not an expert..

[TREESofRIGHTEOUSNESS]

#ubuntu-design

I posted this webpage on there, This really needs to occur in ringtail. With as smooth as unity is running, it would be great to have a complete beautiful experience

[AestheticArson]

Thank you very much for this theme! It looks good. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10, and was able to install quick without any problems.

My first suggestion for you is to either increase the terminal window's width and height, it seemed very small especially with the default font for the terminal window.
The second suggestion would be to change the default font that you have for the terminal window, I noticed that the underscore "_" doesn't show up after being input.

Besides that it's awesome! Thank you very much.

[morgenstond]

Has there been any word on getting this in by default from the powers that be?

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

Now that is a nice theme, any chance of a xubuntu version? (just change the background and change 'Ubuntu' to 'xubuntu')
almost makes me want to change the timeout on my menu just to see it

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

Why can't i get the partedmagic icon to work? all of my other icons work???

~$ ls -l /media/chad/10A9-AFCE/boot/grub/themes/ubuntu/icons/
total 1440
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  65909 Mar 13 20:27 arch.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  17205 Mar 13 21:53 dban.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  65909 Mar 13 20:27 debian.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad   4283 Mar 13 20:27 fedora.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  65909 Mar 13 20:27 gentoo.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  29156 Mar 13 21:49 gnomeubuntu.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad 395473 Mar 13 20:27 gnu-linux.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  37643 Mar 13 20:27 kubuntu.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  65946 Mar 13 20:27 linuxmint.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad   7380 Mar 13 20:27 lubuntu.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  16087 Mar 13 20:27 mandrivalinux.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad 141927 Mar 13 20:27 opensuse.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad   7777 Mar 13 20:27 osx.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad   4449 Apr 20 23:21 partedmagic.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad   8631 Mar 13 20:27 recovery.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  23422 Mar 13 20:27 sabayon.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad 214373 Mar 13 20:27 slackware.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  40292 Mar 13 20:27 submenu.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad   8852 Mar 13 20:27 ubuntu.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  17049 Mar 13 20:27 windows.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 chad chad  11882 Mar 13 20:27 xubuntu.png

http://pastebin.com/YVXSdkbN - partedmagic's entry is on line 66

to make my partedmagic.png

wget http://partedmagic.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=logo.gif -O /tmp/logo.gif
convert /tmp/logo.gif /tmp/partedmagic.png
echo "open /tmp and get you will see the png file"

[Baldrick_NZ]

Update: At the suggestion of morgenstond, I'm working on styling the theme in a similar manner to the Unity greeter for LightDM. You can see the progress of that in post 16.

After installing openSUSE a while back and seeing the default GRUB2 theme, I thought that my favorite distribution, Ubuntu, needed it's own. So this is my attempt at theme that lives up to the high standard of the artwork for Ubuntu. It's not finished, but it's getting there. You can find the theme here on GitHub. I hope to get this theme into the final release of 13.04.

Todo List:

• Add a drop shodow to the menu and the terminal window.

How To Use:
1) Clone the GitHub repository:

git clone git://github.com/dniMretsaM/Ubuntu-GRUB2-Theme.git

2) Move the theme file:

cd Ubuntu-GRUB2-Theme/
sudo mkdir /usr/share/grub/themes
sudo cp --recursive ubuntu/ /usr/share/grub/themes/

3) Add this line to /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/ubuntu/theme.txt

4) Update GRUB's configuration:

sudo update-grub

Notes:

• Although I'm making this theme for 13.04, it will work on other versions. I have included a .xcf of the logo (13.04.xcf), so you can easily change it to be 12.10, or what ever other version you want.
• The background image (background.png) is currently the default wallpaper from 12.10. The theme will use Raring's default when it's available later in the development cycle.
• The resolution in the screen shot is 1024x768 (I can't get my VinrtualBox install to use 1366x768), but the theme is not resolution dependant. Also, ignore the grey line at the bottom, as that's from VB.

So yeah, feel free to try it out. Make suggestions, contribute graphics, whatever.


Enjoy,
dniMretsaM

I really love the concept of this! Looks totally professional.

The only thing, which I think is a bug, is once I've timed out (or made my selection and entered enter), I get a large terminal-like box which centres itself in the middle of my screen pretty much blocking out your excellent work! It actually looks like some sort of splash screen, but entirely blue, with no writing on it.

Removing the 'terminal.png' and associated font from the theme.txt file helps, but doesn't remove it altogether.

Is there anyway to remove this completely?

Keep up the awesome work!!
heers.
C

[edkmho]

Great theme. Thanks.

I am experiencing the same issue with the big square poping up after selecting the OS. Would appreciate if you could help.

Many thanks.

[disPlay]

The theme looks great. Thanks

[ruffxl]

Great work, Keep it up
And Thanks!