Hi Ray, I have to disagree. And why? Becuase of my experience. Few days ago one colleague came to my cubicle and asked me - KDE wants something and I don't know what they want. So I took a look and saw Plymouth with something that looks like password dialog. He was really surprised that it's asking for password. At first - really, I think it's dracut bug as I think it was password for encrypted device he uses on demand (I can ask him). But you can imagine - he's very experienced user and still he failed. I'm not sure how difficult would be implementing font support (kernel's fonts?) and a few lines of translation wouldn't be such a problem. Jaroslav On Monday 05 October 2009 00:44:47 Ray Strode wrote: > Hi, > > > What do others think? Should the LiveCD by default access and > > activate storage volumes, including encrypted partitions, on the hard > > disks? Should the LUKS prompts better identify the volume so that > > users know what passphrase to enter? > > This seems like a misfeature in dracut for LiveCD or otherwise. > > The initrd should be about getting / mounted read-only and nothing else. > > There's a reason why plymouth doesn't identify the volume in the initrd. > Plymouth is graphical and so would need to ship fonts, font > renderering libraries, > and translations in the initrd to display text. That's a non-starter. > > It's okay though, because in most cases the user should only ever get > asked for one passphrase from the initrd, > so we don't need to show anything but a lock icon and an entry box. > > If that's no longer the case in a dracut world, we probably need to fix > dracut. > > The alternative would be to drop to the console when unlocking and > show untranslated messages. > > --Ray > -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
