<div dir="ltr">At least I said based on my observation with computer beginners (they don't [want to]* understand anything, they just wait the login-screen then the Firefox icon, their so WAW thing is the theme and desktop background; that's actually what they wait for starting from pressing the power button), and I said "I believe" so I'm not obligated to proof, what about your statement? -- Amahdy AbdElAziz IT & Development Manager 3D Diagnostix Inc. <a href="http://www.3ddx.com">www.3ddx.com</a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz">http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 19:13, Mohammed Bassit <<a href="mailto:webceo123@gmail.com">webceo123@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> 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 > > I'm currently reading on how to get into the MOTU team, but as far as > I get familiar with the dev-life cycle I think I'll get pretty much > time. (I cant put up to 2 hours per day only). > > BTW: I believe 99% of users doesn't really care about the splached > boot, they *have* to see text at some point after pressing the power > button (related to BIOS, detecting IDE, RAM ... etc then GRUP > loading ...) so if this text continue to tell (Loading kernel, > X-Server, .. etc) it doesn't matter a lot as far as they reach at the > end a graphical login-screen which starting from here become for most > users a critical matter. > </div>I'm very tempted to say that 99% of users think you are wrong ! </blockquote></div> </div>