Plymouth animated startup

[David Nielsen]

2008/9/13 Charlie Brej <fedora-art at brej.org>

> 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
>

That is definitely sexy, I do have one comment though. The current plymouth
splash has a progress bar, and as pretty as this is it doesn't tell us
anything about the boot progress so a user might be tempted to think we
stalled, any thoughts as to the need for such visual feedback?. Aside that I
love it.

- David
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