Bug 1919 - linux_logo, ASCII art graphical logo on console login screen
Summary: linux_logo, ASCII art graphical logo on console login screen
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New RPM package request (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olivier Thauvin
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/l...
Whiteboard: Mdv
Keywords: Atelier
: 2788 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-25 22:16 CEST by David Walser
Modified: 2013-04-09 12:04 CEST (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: linux_logo
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
ANSI version of logo_mageia.png (2.92 KB, text/plain)
2011-12-29 23:06 CET, David Walser
Details
Mageia ascii art logo integrated into the screenfetch script (814 bytes, text/plain)
2011-12-30 11:46 CET, Matteo Pasotti
Details

Description David Walser 2011-06-25 22:16:27 CEST
I know it's old and kind of silly, but it's a nice way to spruce up the boring console login screen.  It also gives a clear and immediate way to identify the distribution when it's sitting at the console.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-21 21:11:13 CEST
Hi David,

Sorry for responding so late. I would like to see a screenshot of what you propose, can you upload it here and maybe also share it in this thread on the forum about how to contibute your art ideas for Mageia 2:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1274

(you can also join a flickr group for Mageia 2 artwork
http://www.flickr.com/groups/Mageia-2-artwork)



@ Thierry

Which package should go in the rpm package field? 
Whichever it is, it is probably yours anyway. So maybe you can decide on what to do with this request

CC: (none) => marja11, thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 David Walser 2011-10-26 16:29:39 CEST
Thanks for the response.  I'm not an artist, but I'm sure someone could come up with something.  Just to be clear, this request is for an existing RPM package called linux_logo, already available in Mandriva.  It would just need an ASCII art Mageia logo to replace the Mandriva one.
Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-26 17:19:21 CEST
(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for the response.  I'm not an artist, but I'm sure someone could come up
> with something.  Just to be clear, this request is for an existing RPM package
> called linux_logo, already available in Mandriva.  It would just need an ASCII
> art Mageia logo to replace the Mandriva one.

Thanks a lot for explaining, David, I didn't know it was an existing package. Do you mind putting the upstream link to the package in the URL: field?

Summary: linux_logo ASCII art graphical logo on console login screen => linux_logo, ASCII art graphical logo on console login screen
Source RPM: (none) => linux_logo

David Walser 2011-10-26 18:08:39 CEST

URL: (none) => http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/linux_logo/

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-26 19:32:37 CEST
@ David

Thanks for the link. That looks really nice :)
Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-30 22:35:16 CET
*** Bug 2788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => jamagallon

Marja Van Waes 2011-12-08 20:40:19 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => Mdv

David Walser 2011-12-29 03:02:55 CET

CC: (none) => mageia-artwork

Comment 6 David Walser 2011-12-29 03:06:11 CET
To be more clear, a color ANSI version of the Mageia logo would be needed.  In the linux_logo source (at the URL on this bug) in logos/distributions/mandriva-banner.logo you can see the format.  cat it to the console to see what it looks like.  I believe logo_mageia.png (available on any Mageia 1 machine) would be a good basis.  The closest I got was scaling this to 160x72 and converting it with Pansi (found on the internet).  It's not quite good enough unfortunately.
Comment 7 Romain d'Alverny 2011-12-29 21:28:25 CET
(In reply to comment #6)
> The closest I got was scaling this to
> 160x72 and converting it with Pansi (found on the internet).  It's not quite
> good enough unfortunately.

But that could be a start already (even intermediary stages), if you can post it somewhere?

CC: (none) => rdalverny

Comment 8 David Walser 2011-12-29 23:06:02 CET
Created attachment 1304 [details]
ANSI version of logo_mageia.png

Thanks Romain.  I've attached the ANSI version of the logo I got from pansi.
Comment 9 Matteo Pasotti 2011-12-30 11:46:04 CET
Created attachment 1307 [details]
Mageia ascii art logo integrated into the screenfetch script

While creating the package of screenfetch for Cauldron, I made a patch containing an ascii logo for Mageia.
I don't know if it's good enough or if it respects your requirements; it can surely be improved but I'm not an ascii artist.

Regards
Matteo Pasotti 2011-12-30 12:13:52 CET

CC: (none) => pasotti.matteo

Comment 10 Max 2011-12-30 15:16:09 CET
If all we need is to convert the logo (with or without text) to ASCII, then there are numerous web services that can be used.
I played around with this one: http://lunatic.no/ol/img2aschtml.php for exactly 1 minute, using the logo on the website as a base.
Some of the results came out pretty nice.

CC: (none) => bogusman222

Comment 11 David Walser 2011-12-30 20:58:07 CET
The big issue isn't getting an ASCII art version of the logo, although that is needed.  The bigger one is getting an ANSI version.  It uses escape codes to change the colors of pieces of the terminal/console.  Check the reference in Comment 6 for an example.
Comment 12 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-27 17:03:42 CET
(sorry for the noise don't know what happen :/)

Blocks: (none) => 4300

Thierry Vignaud 2012-01-27 18:27:11 CET

Attachment 1304 mime type: application/octet-stream => image/png

Thierry Vignaud 2012-01-27 18:32:35 CET

Attachment 1304 mime type: image/png => text/plain

Comment 13 Max 2012-04-23 15:35:57 CEST
I think that it is too late for Mga2, for this.
Maybe as a request for Mga3.
Comment 14 David Walser 2012-04-23 17:32:16 CEST
(In reply to comment #13)
> I think that it is too late for Mga2, for this.
> Maybe as a request for Mga3.

Well, it just depends on how long it takes someone to hack up an ANSI logo.  The software itself is working already.
Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-24 00:27:21 CEST

Blocks: 4300 => (none)

Romain d'Alverny 2012-07-05 15:18:41 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Atelier

Comment 15 Marja Van Waes 2012-08-18 20:45:34 CEST
assigning to Nanar who is working on this

Assignee: bugsquad => nanardon

Comment 16 Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-19 11:37:55 CEST
it's in cauldron

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Nicolas Vigier 2013-04-09 12:02:39 CEST

CC: (none) => atelier-bugs

Nicolas Vigier 2013-04-09 12:04:23 CEST

CC: mageia-artwork => (none)


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