Plymouth animated startup

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Charlie,

Charlie Brej wrote:
> In Fedora 10 there will be a new graphical startup program replacing 
> RHGB[1]. Its called Plymouth and it starts even earlier than rhgb. You 
> can see a demo of the current default fedora startup here[2]. The system 
> works on plugins to allow different styles of splash screens. To play 
> around with it I wrote a plugin which uses components of the InvinXble 
> theme and animates them. You can see a video of this[3]. It is still 
> work in progress but it does not seem too CPU intensive. I kept the 
> plugin pretty general so it should be easy to change it to suit any theme.
> 
> What I would like is some feedback as to whether something like this is 
> desirable.
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup
> [2] http://katzj.livejournal.com/432586.html
> [3] http://brej.org/test/plymouth_invx.mpg
>        and http://brej.org/test/plymouth_invx.gif

I just saw your startup screen running on Ray Strode's machine and it is 
really fantastic.

It'd be cool to see one with spinning gears for Gears, and one with 
solar flares for Solar!

~m