Havoc Pennington (hp@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
> You could imagine for example that rhgb is only a "view" that doesn't
> have any interaction with or entanglement with the actual boot process,
> it just watches events about boot progress and displays them. I don't
> know how close that is to true already,
Hahaha, that is so not true now.
> situation. For that matter, maybe rhgb could just become part of gdm, if
> we can get gdm launched early enough instead of at the end. Just
> speculating.
Ideally, what happens is:
- you get *full* X up as early as possible (as opposed to the limited
X rhgb runs on now)
- you start gdm
- as a 'PreLoginAvailable' thing in gdm, you run rhgb, which just
collects script events (via dbus, presumably) and puts up information
Main technical barriers:
- getting enough of an env for full X to run early
- get filesystems mounted read-write quickly
- make X deal gracefully with the lack of xfs at startup
(or just shoot xfs :) )
- finding a good way for a gdm managed X to make its screen
available for rhgb, firstboot, and other 'custom' pre-session
widgetry
Bill
