On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ray Strode wrote: >> We start plymouth in the initrd, and we >> don't have fonts, translations, font rendering libraries or anything >> in the initrd. we could ship those things in the initrd but it would >> make the initrd substantially larger. > > How about turning the messages that Plymouth needs to display into > pictures? There would be a set of pre-rendered image files with > translations of the phrase "Press Esc if you want to see what's going > on." for all the different locales, and the correct image for the > configured locale would be included when the initrd was generated. > Plymouth would then just put that picture up on the screen, not caring > about what language it's written in or with which font. > > The passphrase prompt could be handled the same way. Instead of just a > picture of a padlock there would be a picture with a translation of > "Enter the disk encryption passphrase." > > Are there other messages that Plymouth may need to display? I would > guess there aren't so many that the scalability of this approach would > be a problem. > > Björn Persson > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel When I think of improving the booting experience tonight, I think of a booter that can't repair itself when it's broken not Plymouth...can we fix real broken things before we fix an annoying thing like plymouth? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
