Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Björn Persson]

Ray Strode wrote:
> We start plymouth in the initrd, and we
> don't have fonts, translations, font rendering libraries or anything
> in the initrd.  we could ship those things in the initrd but it would
> make the initrd substantially larger.

How about turning the messages that Plymouth needs to display into
pictures? There would be a set of pre-rendered image files with
translations of the phrase "Press Esc if you want to see what's going
on." for all the different locales, and the correct image for the
configured locale would be included when the initrd was generated.
Plymouth would then just put that picture up on the screen, not caring
about what language it's written in or with which font.

The passphrase prompt could be handled the same way. Instead of just a
picture of a padlock there would be a picture with a translation of
"Enter the disk encryption passphrase."

Are there other messages that Plymouth may need to display? I would
guess there aren't so many that the scalability of this approach would
be a problem.

Björn Persson
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