Hey,
just point out that at least here it takes really a lot of time since gdm
appears to actually you can use the computer. Any chance to get this
improved as well?
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time you
see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the graphical grub
screen, followed by the filling-in-Fedora of Plymouth, followed by the gdm
login screen. Grub in particular is problematic, with a starfield
background that looks like a Fedora background from a few releases ago and
a progress bar that indicates the progress in 'booting the bootloader'.
There are also some issues on the login screen, with Fedora logo being at
small-print size right now.
I think a few simple changes we can make a big improvement to the visual
experience for F19:
- Turn off the graphical grub screen
Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having a
clean boot menu like this:
https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock...,
avoiding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual
noise.
- Switch to a simple spinner for the plymouth theme
This theme is available in plymouth today:
https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock...
I know when we've proposed this in the past, there was concern about
loosing the one place where the Fedora logo is visible in the boot. I'd
like to propose a compromise that will keep the Fedora logo _and_ improve
the transition to the login screen: How about we use the spinner as in that
mockup, but add a reasonably-sized Fedora logo in the top left corner.
- Replace the small print logo on the login screen with a bigger one
The idea here is to replace the small-print Fedora text logo that we
currently have in that corner by the same Fedora logo thats used in
plymouth, so that it remains unchanged as we transition from plymouth to
gdm.
What do you think ?
Matthias
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