On 03/11/2013 01:55 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
On 2013-03-11 18:49, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 11.03.13 12:58, Matthias Clasen (mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
Hi,
I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time
you see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the
graphical grub screen, followed by the filling-in-Fedora of
Plymouth, followed by the gdm login screen. Grub in particular is
problematic, with a starfield background that looks like a Fedora
background from a few releases ago and a progress bar that indicates
the progress in 'booting the bootloader'.
There are also some issues on the login screen, with Fedora logo
being at small-print size right now.
I think a few simple changes we can make a big improvement to the
visual experience for F19:
- Turn off the graphical grub screen
Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having
a clean boot menu like this:
https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/bootmenu.png,
avoiding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual
noise.
We should not only turn off the graphical screen, but the entire thing
should get turned off unless the user presses some key.
This is probably relatively easy to do, we'd just need remove a lot of
module loading lines from the generated grub.conf.
Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e.
g., "Press F1 to..." in some corner. Current
policy that user just should know the key is not that good IMHO.
After all, this is the first screen a newcomer
meets. And thisis not only about the initial grub boot but also the
"main" boot process (and screen) that follows.
With regards to a label on the screen instructing the user how to show
the hidden preboot menu (GRUB), It is clutter that is not needed. It
makes boot up longer, as that screen will need to appear on the screen
long enough for the user to read, at which point why not just display
the preboot menu?
cheers,
ryanlerch
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