Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Björn Persson
<bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> 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.
Yea, we've talked about doing that before.  We've also talked about
querying the console font.  So definitely possibilities to address the
limitation.

--Ray