Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 12.3.2013 19:16, Ray Strode napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
>>> This is an interesting idea, but I don't think plymouth makes it any
>>> easier to display CJK & Indic glyphs. (Please someone more technical
>>> tell me if I'm wrong here, I vaguely remember this being an issue when
>>> we wanted to add a messagse to fedup)
>> I hoped that it would be easier to localize plymouth compared to grub2. In
>> addition to that we'd also get rid of problems resulting of the
>> interaction between grub2 s gfx stack and the kernel/plymouth, and last but
>> not least we wouldn't need to maintain a theme for grub.
> Yea it's not really easier.  We start plymouth in the initrd, and we
> don't have fonts, translations, font rendering libraries or anything
> in the initrd.  we could ship those things in the initrd but it would
> make the initrd substantially larger.
>
> Of course we can do localized text fine on systems that don't have
> initrds, or at later points in the boot process after we've switched
> out of the initrd.
>
> --Ray

May be some nice pictogram wold make it without translation.

Vít