Patch: timed progressbar for plymouth-plugin-spinfinity

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Bastien Nocera escribió:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:12 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>   
>> Bastien Nocera escribió:
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>>>> Using 'timebar:2' modifies the percentage calculation to use an
>>>> exponential function - this makes the bar run faster at first, then slow
>>>> as it approaches 100%. This makes startup seem even faster. Seriously!
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>>>>         
>>> Awesome. Humans are so gullible.
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>>>       
>> True, though I can think of ONE situation where faster boot times are 
>> desirable: laptop users. For the minute or so it takes my laptop to boot 
>> and initiate my session (no automatic session start, though), if the 
>> battery is at full 100% charge, it will eat 5% of the charge during that 
>> minute... Just do some math here and at that rate, should anything 
>> happen during boot (like the scan of the largest partition on the 
>> drive), there's only 20 or so minutes of power.
>>     
>
> I didn't say _actual_ faster boots were not desirable, just that a
> perceived faster boot was a good thing. FWIW, if you can only get 20
> minutes of battery from your laptop, it's time to buy a new battery...
>
>   
Well is not like I can only get 20 minutes of power out of it, is that 
during boot the system seems to be on an "all-on" state that draws 
immense amounts of power. Before all the power-saving features kick in, 
power drainage is very heavy. Once they're all in place I have at least 
2 hours worth of battery juice. I was pointing out the immense amount of 
power boot up requires, at least as of F8 (I can't install F9 yet on 
this one due to graphics problems I experienced with a previous attempt)