On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:03:02PM +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
We have a problem with the default boot splash. It tries to convey
progress
but we don't have a good way to tell how far in the boot process we are
(eg. if we do fsck or selinux relabel, it will appear stuck for some time,
which is a bad user experience).
Yeah, I've had that experience where secret-fsck made me think my computer
was broken.
Since we don't have any actual progress data, using a progress
indicator
there is silly.
Can we _get_ actual progress data? Making that be meaningful seems better
than throwing the whole thing out. Discussion on fsck progress indicator
here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-April/002063.html
Something similar could be done for relabel and any other long tasks which
might impede startup.
And if you really, really want the logo to be there for those few
seconds
(despite everything I've said and despite the fact that not flashing a logo
everywhere will not make Fedora to be less Fedora, our logo is just a logo
- there are more basic things that makes us special and makes our users
happy), we could put a small version of it in the top left corner, so it'll
be not intrusive.
I think the logo should be prominent during the process. I don't care how.
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