I was reading the feature list for Fedora 8 and was disappointed when I
came across the "Better Startup Experience".
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup
After reading the "Plan for improvement" section, I find it
discomforting such a major change will be done to the existing very
working/stable rhgb boot process.
1) Do away with the grub menu by default
Why? That is the first question that came to mind. A large number of
linux users dual-boot multiple OSes. It also is useful when you have
multiple kernel versions installed; if you set the time-out to 3 seconds
do you really notice it?
2) Switch to graphical Mode in initrd, draw an animation....
I have an animation now in rhgb, and as a bonus I can see all my
services loading if I hit the "more" button. I trust this feature will
not go away?
3) rhgb goes away
?reinvent the wheel?
This sounds a lot like the useless Mac OS X boot sequence in which a
little circle is animated in the middle of the screen. That tells the
user nothing what is going on in the boot process and is a pile of crap.
Almost as brilliant as the Windows Vista loading screen.
I'd be curious to hear others thoughts on this; I can't be the only user
out there who likes to know his system is indeed booting up and what it
is doing. Is this really the direction we want for the fedora-desktop
environment? Simply cloning other OSes poor user interface decisions?
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