On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 13:18 -0500, Eric Griffith wrote: > 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? Possibly. It's worth trying again. There are still many non-UEFI systems out there, though, and people who do BIOS installs to UEFI systems because they think UEFI is the devil's work (or just can't be bothered with it). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
