[Bug 1808196] [NEW] Set the default delay to 0

[Sebastien Bacher]

Public bug reported:

Nowadays we get frequent feedback from desktop user being confused by
plymouth not showing or showing for a (few) seconds.

Plymouth has a default timeout of 5 seconds before being displayed, the
idea was to not display it at all rather than for a few seconds. In
practice most configurations take 10 seconds or longer to boot and it
seems it's quite common with current market configurations&Ubuntu
versions to be in the 7-8 seconds which doesn't play nicely with the 5
seconds delay and make that "plymouth show for one second result"

That's something upstream discussed/considered changing in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/issues/64 before
decided to go directly to the new design of keeping the bios/vendor logo
on screen and avoiding transition this way. The outcome of the
discussion was that it would probably make sense to change the default
to 0 second. I proposed doing that in disco (and perhaps backport that
to cosmic/bionic then). WDYT?

** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to plymouth in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808196

Title:
  Set the default delay to 0

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Nowadays we get frequent feedback from desktop user being confused by
  plymouth not showing or showing for a (few) seconds.

  Plymouth has a default timeout of 5 seconds before being displayed,
  the idea was to not display it at all rather than for a few seconds.
  In practice most configurations take 10 seconds or longer to boot and
  it seems it's quite common with current market configurations&Ubuntu
  versions to be in the 7-8 seconds which doesn't play nicely with the 5
  seconds delay and make that "plymouth show for one second result"

  That's something upstream discussed/considered changing in
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/issues/64 before
  decided to go directly to the new design of keeping the bios/vendor
  logo on screen and avoiding transition this way. The outcome of the
  discussion was that it would probably make sense to change the default
  to 0 second. I proposed doing that in disco (and perhaps backport that
  to cosmic/bionic then). WDYT?

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1808196/+subscriptions