Patch: timed progressbar for plymouth-plugin-spinfinity

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:12 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Bastien Nocera escribió:
> >> Using 'timebar:2' modifies the percentage calculation to use an
> >> exponential function - this makes the bar run faster at first, then slow
> >> as it approaches 100%. This makes startup seem even faster. Seriously!
> >>     
> >
> > Awesome. Humans are so gullible.
> >   
> 
> True, though I can think of ONE situation where faster boot times are 
> desirable: laptop users. For the minute or so it takes my laptop to boot 
> and initiate my session (no automatic session start, though), if the 
> battery is at full 100% charge, it will eat 5% of the charge during that 
> minute... Just do some math here and at that rate, should anything 
> happen during boot (like the scan of the largest partition on the 
> drive), there's only 20 or so minutes of power.

I didn't say _actual_ faster boots were not desirable, just that a
perceived faster boot was a good thing. FWIW, if you can only get 20
minutes of battery from your laptop, it's time to buy a new battery...