[ubuntu-art] New Boot Experience in Karmic

[Dylan McCall]

> I downloaded the fedora live CD to view their effort and found the boot
> animation did not display on my nVidia desktop but did display on my
> Intel laptop. :/

This is because NVidia is afraid of providing an open source kernel
end for their driver (as i understand it, strictly the mode setting
portion) even though Everyone Else Does It. Feel free to yell at them
and perhaps they'll figure it out.

The Nouveau driver supports KMS, for what it's worth.

As for boot animation, I recommend something ridiculously simple, eg.
a logo and a throbber, maybe with a non-black background colour (dark
grey?) to spruce things up and show off the awesome. Remember that
we're aiming for a really, really quick boot. That means complex
animations will not be very visible (and look tacky, anyway). Also
remember that this is a still one of MANY screens, again heightening
the silliness of a noisy graphic.

John, just so you know, Flash is a very proprietary technology. Using
it purposefully on the desktop would be like including a WMV video in
the Examples folder. So don't worry about that one ;)
Boot animations tend not to use external libraries for big videos
because those fancy libraries will not function yet, would strain
resources, and are unnecessary given that the boot animation is a
static, one time thing.