On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:26 PM, R P Herrold <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think it was a fair question which was raised about the size > of the audience being sought to be catered to, vs the mass of > users of Fedoraproject code, and their 'least astonishment' > and loss of acquired knowledge as to use > > If there are, oh, say, twelve people in the world that > actually care about instantaneous GUI boots in Fedora, it is a > waste of time to mess with this thread > > > but to the most recent point raised about 'modifier keys'. I > recall doing this back in DOS days with a third-party tool > that permitted 'BAT files' to query for Shift, Alt, and Ctrl > key states, and to build boolean decision trees: > > On Thu, 31 May 2018, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> If the protocol were that the boot menu would be shown if >> any key at all were held down, then we wouldn't need a 1 >> second delay. > > or, perhaps, better still and less complex as in needing to > suppress a boot menu, a message at the bottom of the GUI > screen from its first appearance and for ten seconds or so: > Hold either Shift key for more boot options More concretely, perhaps plymouth could display such a message on its splash screen for as long as its running. But the message should probably be more accurate, along the lines of "Reboot and hold the Shift key for more boot options". _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/HQ5BAPZVCGLZ77ONMIWJASXL7WKAYIUW/
