On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 17:03 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
Few release cycles ago, the Desktop team wanted to change the boot
splash to a minimalistic throbber. This does look better, but caused a
lot of flamewars and stupid conspiracy theories on this list and the
marketing list, and we vetoed the change.
It wasn't a throbber, it was a progress + throbber.
~m