Graphical windows at boot - wish-item

[David Timms]

Ray Strode wrote:
> It turns out it only had a hard-coded list of about 12 services that it 
> would present anyway (also, some of them weren't even useful in fedora 
> like RHN, or only useful once like firstboot), so we discussed it and 
> decided to ditch the messages.
> 
> We don't want to invest a lot of time in RHGB because it's going to get 
> retired in F9 for better graphical boot options.

Some text and a countdown - matched by a 0-100% progress bar:
"This computer will be ready for use in 23-22...4 secs" - and the login 
prompt appears at the time 0. Base it on normal startup duration for the 
machine {ie learned}.

> Note you can still get very detailed messages by clicking the Details 
> expander.
I'd like that capability to stay. Then I get an early indication of 
something going wrong during boot.

DaveT.