Thanks again everyone for your feedback and it's good to hear various ideas thrown about.
With regard to rollover effects, they won't be included in the embedded booter as the whole purpose of this has just been nicely described by Zef. Therefore, the booter will be able to render a simple clean looking GUI from it's own embedded sources which will serve it's purpose when needed. But let's not forget the revised coding work done to RC5 by Zef and Meklort that now allows the booter to load extra images from an external source. In this case, we can add different additional rollover images in to the default theme folder which the booter will detect and use along side the embedded ones.
I like your plate/dish, maybe a little more floating and with what Zef mentioned about some glow and a thicker, 2 pixel wider plate.
What do you think of, when a selection is made, that the light of the led of the selected disk is green?
Hi Lord Anubis, yes, lighting the LED green is a good idea and that's what the rollover concept is designed for.. we can do that in the external device icons that the booter can load. And a slightly different selector can be done too. I have attached below a latest preview of where I am at with three different variations of selector that we could maybe use.
Just my 2 cents. I would love the bronze initial images, with double height RAID icon (without apple logo), and the glow effect on the icons when selected.
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However, my preference is for an embedded theme with different colored icons for each icon when highlighted by the glow effect for selection.
Hi nesnfsn, these could maybe be looked at for additional devices loaded by the booter outside of the embedded icons, but that's for another time.
So just to show where I am with this:
I have changed the background to a more neutral colour, but still dark enough for the white text. Adjusted the colour of the devices icons (yet again), reduced the logos on the device icons and adjusted their perspective. I've slightly stretched the font vertically and added a simple idea for some rollover devices which can be added outside of the booter, these only have subtle changes of the drive light changing (I can increase the glow of the drive lights later if desired) and lighting of the optical disc slot. T
There are three variations for the selector to give food for thought, but my next step will be to put these icons in to a complied binary for testing so you can all see the theme working and get a feel for it. I'll post that when I get round to it
