Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Ignacio Casal Quinteiro]

Hey,

just point out that at least here it takes really a lot of time since gdm
appears to actually you can use the computer. Any chance to get this
improved as well?


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time you
> see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the graphical grub
> screen, followed by the filling-in-Fedora of Plymouth, followed by the gdm
> login screen. Grub in particular is problematic, with a starfield
> background that looks like a Fedora background from a few releases ago and
> a progress bar that indicates the progress in 'booting the bootloader'.
>
> There are also some issues on the login screen, with Fedora logo being at
> small-print size right now.
>
> I think a few simple changes we can make a big improvement to the visual
> experience for F19:
>
> - Turn off the graphical grub screen
>
> Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having a
> clean boot menu like this:
> https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/bootmenu.png,
> avoiding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual
> noise.
>
> - Switch to a simple spinner for the plymouth theme
>
> This theme is available in plymouth today:
> https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/boot.png
> I know when we've proposed this in the past, there was concern about
> loosing the one place where the Fedora logo is visible in the boot. I'd
> like to propose a compromise that will keep the Fedora logo _and_ improve
> the transition to the login screen: How about we use the spinner as in that
> mockup, but add a reasonably-sized Fedora logo in the top left corner.
>
> - Replace the small print logo on the login screen with a bigger one
>
> The idea here is to replace the small-print Fedora text logo that we
> currently have in that corner by the same Fedora logo thats used in
> plymouth, so that it remains unchanged as we transition from plymouth to
> gdm.
>
> What do you think ?
>
>
> Matthias
>
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