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Please don't change artix-dark-theme too much

local/artix-grub-theme was never a thing of beauty but I understand boot screen constraints and it was at least not actively ugly. However 2023.12-7 updated today is hideous beyond words, I had to edit /etc/default/grub and grub-mkconfig just to remove the pain.

local/artix-dark-theme is by far the best dark gtk theme I have seen and my favorite. If you break it I'll suffer.

Dear developers, please don't break artix-dark-theme, ok?  :D

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But it's really cool, what are you on about? :)
maybe your grub resolution is 800x600 or something then i would imagine it looking worse than before.

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Quote from: Hitman – on
But it's really cool, what are you on about? :)
maybe your grub resolution is 800x600 or something then i would imagine it looking worse than before.

On previous design It seems all was designed for 16:10 screens, where I have 16:9, so the previous background picture with Artix logo was a bit squashed vertically. I am not a designer by profession but leaning toward mild OCD, I can't tell you how annoying distorted logo is (any distorted logo logo equally but this one happens to stare at me). But I never used themed grub before Artix and it was novel enough to tolerate distortion.

New design is both squashed, takes whole screen, color is beyond description, and is styled interpretation of the logo shapes. To me it looks like what drunk fellow would spray on the wall five days after seeing Artix logo for the first time, product of drunk memory.

Don't get me wrong, I love Artix, nobody forces me to use default theme, so I removed it. Just have no doubts, previous one was 80% ugly and needed re-thinking while new one is 150% ugly and, for me, had to go away. I don't know all the limitations for grub theming, maybe it has to be distorted, maybe not.

To illustrate that mild OCD I mentioned, I probably tried thousands of GTK themes over the years, since discovering Artix and artix-dark-theme probably another hundred, and artix-dark-theme wins every time.

Re: Please don't change artix-dark-theme too much

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Quote from: dpx – on
Dear developers, please don't break artix-dark-theme, ok?  :D

Nothing was broken, just the grub theme updated for the new netinstall iso, which is purely plasma and has no gtk dedicated default theme, since kde's breeze has a builtin gtk breeze theme. Bottom line, the changes ease the life of us devs, I am no bling art guy, if you don't like the new theme, stay tuned until a bling guy comes along and adds bling, essentially replacing the wallpaper.

Re: Please don't change artix-dark-theme too much

Reply #4 –
Just run into this:
https://gitlab.com/VandalByte/darkmatter-grub-theme

And Artix variant looks very decent:
https://user-content.gitlab-static.net/375af8d801be9452c3741c32784a838418ddd5ee/68747470733a2f2f7261772e67697468756275736572636f6e74656e742e636f6d2f56616e64616c427974652f6461726b6d61747465722d67727562322d7468656d652f6d61696e2f6d656469612f70726576696577732f707265766965772d61727469782e706e67

Didn't try installing it yet so I am not sure how well it works but that's one good un-distorted logo.

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Quote from: dpx – on
local/artix-dark-theme is by far the best dark gtk theme I have seen and my favorite. If you break it I'll suffer
It is based on Ventoy, which I like more, because it has not so bright Clone/Min/Max-Buttons..

@daylight I prever the normal Ventoy (bright with dark title) becauce the dark is then not so good for my eyes.

I'm using Xfce-Runit.

Re: Please don't change artix-dark-theme too much

Reply #6 –
The GRUB theme rendering is absolutely dependent on the user's screen ratio, which in turn is next to impossible to guess at boot. This is why most (all?) distros just slap in a 800x600 or 1024x768 picture (which looks squashed in widescreen) and let the users customize it themselves. It's not really worth spending time in doing even this on behalf of the user, especially not in Artix which is aiming at more apt people. I usually put our DNA wallpaper as GRUB background on boxes I feel worth customizing, which are mostly in places other people work and get impressed by such simple, insignificant details.
The upcoming netinstall medium is WIP by artoo, aspiring to get rid of the overwhelming number of ISOs we're currently offering. In principle it should be able to install as any of the pre-assembled images, from frugal base to lavish community and beyond, with or without system and apps theming. A few standardized ISOs shall remain, as guaranteed and reproducible installation methods, convenience in low-bandwidth / no-internet environments and safeguard against the day the world as we know it dies. And because I can't remember how many users I've converted to Linux with an Artix community Gtk or Qt edition I always carry around on a ventoy USB stick.