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[Evan Dandrea <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Traditionally the slideshow took svg source files, ran them through the
GIMP to add a drop shadow, and outputted pngs.  As the new design does
not include a drop shadow, the svgs are no longer used.  The slideshow
does not scale, so the advantage that SVG provides does not apply here.

Ubiquity has always been set to not show the slideshow if the screen
resolution is less than 800x600.  The new slideshow height is only
500px, but the width is 816px, slightly larger than the current minimum
bound for its display.  As netbooks are generally 1024px wide (as you
mention), we could increase this limit and still cover the majority of
systems.  However, as it's a difference of only 16px, lets first check
with Dylan and Michael to see if we could reasonably shave off this
extra space.

Michael, Dylan, what are your thoughts on this?

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Freeze exception request: modify install window to match new theme
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538411
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Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ubiquity

Please grant a freeze exception for the following patches:
ubiquity: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40904341/install-window-match-theme.patch
ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41110160/slideshow-match-theme.patch

We've implemented Michael Forrest's mockup for the new slideshow, which brings it more in line with the new theme, but this requires some very small changes to ubiquity.  It now puts items on the install window in slightly different places and uses the theme colors for the window background.

The result of which, is this:
http://people.canonical.com/~evand/tmp/new-install-desktop.png

I've tested this myself and confirmed it working without issue.