Re: The boot splash - time to think about it again

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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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