The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

[Mat Tomaszewski]

On 25/01/2010 18:02, Vishnoo wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:03 +0200, Amahdy wrote:
>    
>> Here is the middle of thing, have the splash splitted out into two
>> parts, the upper is the graphical splash and the lower part is the
>> traditional text-boot with [green(OK)] or [red(fail)]
>> Even maybe with a scrollbar to scroll through the log if needed...
>>
>> I'd love to contribute this idea, but as you may have noticed I'm just
>> brand new here and don't even know the programming language used :D
>>
>>      
> This boot animation/graphical splash will most probably be decided by
> the Canonical design team. [as was done for Karmic]
>
> They decided to drop the progress bar since it was not accurate at
> showing the progress [starts , zooms , stops , zooms again] and not
> really necessary.
>
>    
Thx Vish, I couldn't have put it any better :-)

best,
Mat