EU OS themed splash screen: ideas, status, development

rriemann · December 20, 2024, 12:12pm

Continuing the discussion from Let's prepare at POC: "EU OS" KDE Plasma workstation for the EU public administration:

For “EU OS”, I want to add few desktop customisations to demonstrate the workflows and possibities. I want to start with an EU-themed splashscreen.

EU OS Plasma Splashscreen

My current idea is to have an early concept of a logo, export them to a few static SVGs and possibly add some little bit of animation via QML. Unfortunately, I have not worked with QML yet.

Your ideas for the logo and the splashscreen would be greatly appreciated.

Logo idea so far

Inkscape SVG: https://people.physik.hu-berlin.de/~rriemann/eu-os/logo-2024-12-20.svg

I would try to make the cursors move around OS in the splash screen and add some background with gradient blue to milkyway purple (because I like purple!)

References:

logos of EU institutions and agencies Annex A2 – Emblems - Interinstitutional Style Guide - Publications Office of the EU
Commission corporate font is derived from PF Square Sans Pro, but hardly any logo uses this font (source)

ngompa · December 20, 2024, 1:57pm

You will want to have your own version of this repo (alongside packaging) with your logos. The filenames matter, as they are used within software in Fedora to get branding.

rriemann · December 30, 2024, 2:15am

Version from 38c3 courtesy of @carl :

eu-os-2024-12-30.tar.gz

rriemann · June 17, 2025, 2:43pm

Hi @ngompa ,

I tried my best (with the help of Timothée) to get this working. Copr shows me an error. Can you please advise?

cmd: ['rpkg', 'srpm', '--outdir', '/var/lib/copr-rpmbuild/results', '--spec', '/var/lib/copr-rpmbuild/workspace/workdir-pagkh_8j/eu-os-logos']
cwd: /var/lib/copr-rpmbuild/workspace/workdir-pagkh_8j/eu-os-logos
rc: 1
stdout: Downloading generic-logos-18.0.0.tar.bz2 from eu-os/packages/eu-os-logos at gitlab.com:

Removed downloaded invalid file /var/lib/copr-rpmbuild/workspace/workdir-pagkh_8j/eu-os-logos/generic-logos-18.0.0.tar.bz2
Server returned status code 403.
stderr: 

Copr build error:

Source: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/rriemann/eu-os/srpm-builds/09171204/builder-live.log.gz

all builds: Builds for rriemann/eu-os

Gitlab repo with spec file:

ngompa · June 20, 2025, 3:36am

Here’s a fix: Switch to Copr makefile to obtain sources (!1) · Merge requests · EU OS / EU OS Workspace Packages / EU OS Logos · GitLab

You’ll need to change your copr package configuration to “make_srpm”, but it should work.