[Bug 1264430] Re: Checking for text mode should be in plymouth and not in inidividual window managers

[Steve Langasek]

The 'text' mode is not a property of plymouth, the commandline option is
a directive to the display manager itself.  The plymouth package
shouldn't know anything about it, and the display manager shouldn't rely
on the plymouth package or this behavio.

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Checking for text mode should be in plymouth and not in inidividual
  window managers

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  gdm and lightdm in their upstart files have code similar to:

  for ARG in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
    if [ "$ARG" = "text" ]; then
      plymouth quit || :
      stop
      exit 0
    fi
  done

  Bug #893764 request the same code be added to kdm.

  This seems like this check should be refactored out of the display
  managers and added to plymouth.  Plymouth upstart could check for text
  mode and emit some sort of start window manager if text mode is not on
  the kernel cmdline.

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