On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 08:42 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:10:15PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > 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, but it might be a nice > > Well communication goes both ways for example to be able to get user > input in kudzu. Right, but you could frame the communication as some kind of interface, instead of just connecting kudzu to a tty. Then have real GUI. > > 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. > > I don't think we can completely merge both but, integrating part of gdm > functionalities within rhgb, for example to allow login before the boot > finishes is one of the future improvement. > I plan to write down within a couple of weeks how I would like rhgb to > improve and evolve. Parallel startup is only one of the aspects of getting > a shorter and smoother "time to session from boot" which is IMHO the real > design goal. One of the goals. Reliability, good error messages, ability to have GUI controls/questions early on are also worth thinking about perhaps. Havoc
