On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:03:02PM +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote: > We have a problem with the default boot splash. It tries to convey progress > but we don't have a good way to tell how far in the boot process we are > (eg. if we do fsck or selinux relabel, it will appear stuck for some time, > which is a bad user experience). Yeah, I've had that experience where secret-fsck made me think my computer was broken. > Since we don't have any actual progress data, using a progress indicator > there is silly. Can we _get_ actual progress data? Making that be meaningful seems better than throwing the whole thing out. Discussion on fsck progress indicator here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-April/002063.html Something similar could be done for relabel and any other long tasks which might impede startup. > And if you really, really want the logo to be there for those few seconds > (despite everything I've said and despite the fact that not flashing a logo > everywhere will not make Fedora to be less Fedora, our logo is just a logo > - there are more basic things that makes us special and makes our users > happy), we could put a small version of it in the top left corner, so it'll > be not intrusive. I think the logo should be prominent during the process. I don't care how. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
