On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:12, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 11:40 -0500, Eric Griffith wrote: >>> >>> Would the animation still look good if we did it over the gray noise >>> background that we currently use for the login screen? The upstream >>> designs call for that background to be used from the GRUB theme all the >>> way to the login screen. >> >> Then why do we opt for a generic black background for grub? > > We don't, we opt for console mode for grub. This is because last time > we tried using the graphical mode by default, we had too many bugs with > it; IIRC, a few systems where grub wasn't visible at all, and quite a > lot where it was very, very slow. Wouldn't that situation have likely changed since UEFI and the emphasis on graphics even very early at boot? _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
