2007/5/28, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 5/23/07, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:39 +0800, Ken YANG wrote: > > as we see, suse 10.2 has the animation grub, it looks good. > > > > can fedora has this kind of grub? > > > > We (the desktop team) hope to get rid of the grub menu in the default > boot sequence instead of making it nicer. See > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup > Great! Go desktop team, go! :) I really believe that presentation of linux is one of the most important things... it must be shiny and preeeeety :) Nice kernel hacks and speedups are nice... but those are things that most desktop users don't care and don't know even exist... but they know good interface and nice boot grub screen when they see one.
I do believe that most users actually care more about kernel hacks and speedups than bling-bling on the desktop, they just do not know it. Most of the people I know run Windows on their computers, and they can roughly be divided into two groups: The non-technical users that do not change anything, and the technical users that instantly switches to the Windows classic interface once they get the chance. I think they would be very upset if the support for their iPod was replaced by drop shadows on windows :) The biggest complains agains free software desktops is not the lack of glossy themes, it is the lack of hardware and multimedia support, speed and general stability. These are issues that are not solved by being able to put virtual workspaces on a spinning cube, but rather by adding support for new hardware to the kernel. The time that it takes to boot a modern linux desktop and the time it takes to start up a popular application like Openoffice, are also much more important to gain attention from regular users. -- Trond Danielsen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
