Bored? Nothing better to do? Why not help out Manu Järvinen who mailed us a plea for help on turning his rather swish BURG theme idea into a boot loading beauty.
€œI am a designer who does not like to code. But what I do like is to design. So I designed some graphics for a BURG bootloader theme. And now I need help from someone to make it real. And, since I am a designer, I don’t like to write either. So as I want to learn Gimp, I made a couple of slides to tell everyone what I need.€
We're always keen to help out – particularly when something as sexy as this is at stake – so follow the prompts below to get clued up, get the tools and get started!
Download the BURG theme graphics here.
€œIn the package there is also Gimp file of the icons. All you designers can do anything you want with them. Maybe even design another BURG bootloader theme, who knows.€
For reference here’s the theme on it’s own. €œThis is how it should look like when you boot up your computer:€ says Manu, continuing €œif more than one person wants to tackle this offer, I encourage [you] all to collaborate together in order to achieve the best possible result (especially for making that rounded loading bar possible! :)€
Manu finishes of his mail to us with this little beau:
€œAnd here’s a mockup of what I would love to see the BURG becoming in the future. [note: yes, they are very little compressed jpgs (high quality, high filesize, not-so-web-comfortable), but please keep them that way. Otherwise the gradient color banding would be too visible - especially on a laptop screen - which would look UG-LY]€
Over to you guys!
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