rhgb no more

[Casey Dahlin]

Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> One thing you will soon notice in F10 rawhide is that rhgb is no
> longer around.  We've blocked it and plan on replacing it for F10.
>
> This is a continuation of our "BetterStartup" feature from a few
> Fedoras ago (I would post a link but the wiki seems to be down).  The
> replacement for rhgb will be a mixture of two things:
>
> 1) Starting gdm as early as possible and fitting it to give boot
> progress before asking for login.   This is somewhat in line with the
> early-login prototype feature some of you may remember from several
> fedora releases ago.
>
> 2) Hiding boot messages before gdm unless escape key is pressed.  For
> graphics hardware that has drm modesetting, we'll be able to show some
> sort of pretty graphics, and for everyone else we'll show a very
> simple text mode progress.
>
> Just a heads up,
> Ray
>
>   

This summer I'll be dedicated fulltime to Upstart. I wouldn't mind 
contributing quite a bit to the new graphical boot as part of this.

I have some rough ideas on how we might visualize the upstart boot 
process, rather than just displaying a progress bar or little ping-ponger.

--CJD