Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Dan Mashal]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Björn Persson
<bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> 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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When I think of improving the booting experience tonight, I think of a
booter that can't repair itself when it's broken not Plymouth...can we
fix real broken things before we fix an annoying thing like plymouth?