rhgb no more

[Nicu Buculei]

Ray Strode wrote:
> 
> 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.

Woohoo!

> 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.

It may be too early to ask about that, but from a theming/artwork point 
of view, is correct my understanding that this will be one piece less to 
theme?
I expect we will have the during the progress the same background image 
as GDM (which uses the same image as the default desktop) and a progress 
bar made with GTK+. Maybe a panel (also made with GTK+?) to hold the 
progress bar? A splash image? Some icons from the default icon theme? 
Additional animations?

> 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.


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