Dude, I like that. Yeah, we'd need a real photoshop god to make it look professional, but your mockup is excellent! That'd be an even better way to do the loading screen! My only change would be to remove the ugly orange (it's nothing against you, but I hate the orange color used with the new maemo.org design) and replace it with a soft blue, which I think looks light years better.

On a side note, if someone were to integrate a progress meter like this, we'd need something that would allow for being able to change the images should someone want something else, similar to how the boot images can be changed now for the tablets. I really don't want to demand too much of the developers on this, but I do think that would count towards a hopefully short list of "must have" items. ^_^;;