…I give to you a cowsay inspired USplash theme.
Not digging Flash? Then by the power of cow, view the ogg format.
Download and installation instructions for Ubuntu are available on my wiki. Enjoy :)
vadim wrote,
Great USplash theme, lovin' it. Consider posting it on gnome-look.org.
Vincent wrote,
Hilarious :P
gaspa wrote,
Next step will be get usplash in verbose mode to say things inside cow baloon. :)
Philip wrote,
@gaspa: great idea! :)
Stas wrote,
Awesome! :)
Semidigerati wrote,
Hah, the nerd inside me just let out a round of applause. Nicely done. If I didn't think I was cool for watching all of that text fly by, I'd install usplash just for this theme.
Andrew wrote,
@ Phil & gaspa
That is actually very easy to get the text inside the cow's mouth.
I can't remember exactly how to do it, as I stopped producing usplash themes a while ago as I got so annoyed at them :-), however if you need help doing it, I'd be happy to help.
Nice Idea
— Andrew
Hanna wrote,
Very cool :D
vajorie wrote,
this is great. pls submit to other places where people can have easy access to. like (first poster's idea) gnome-look.
Philip wrote,
@Andrew: True, I would not imagine it would be too difficult to have boot-up output displayed in the cow's speech bubble. However, having thought about it, I am not sure it would be such a great idea. Also, I only made it as a bit of fun and I am not planning on spending much more time it ;)
@vajorie: will do, thanks :)
Becky wrote,
As the saying goes: "Simple things, please simple minds!"
How much time did Philip spend on this to the detriment of keeping his woman happy!
Fabian Rodriguez wrote,
Thanks for the Theora video. However its extension should be .ogv. What did you create it with ? See: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg2theora/+bug/201291
Philip wrote,
@Fabian Rodriguez: Thanks for the info. The video was captured with gtk-recordMyDesktop. See, http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/gtk-recordmydesktop
Ed wrote,
This is great! Could be a touch better if the progress bar was in the word bubble and the first bar was an M, followed by progress o's.
M Mooo Moooooo Moooooooooooooooooo!
:D
chris4585 wrote,
downloads this is awesome Phillip
agatzebluz wrote,
One word only : Excellent
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