Further usplash development

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 31 00:46:15 CDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:27:39AM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On di, 2005-08-30 at 15:35 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:25:36AM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> >  
> > > I did nto test usplash yet, but this behaviour should come with a notice
> > > about why usplash has quit and that this is NOT neccessarily bad... 
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that isn't practical for Breezy.  It shouldn't be
> > significantly more disconcerting than a pre-usplash system which stays in
> > text mode for most of the boot process.
> 
> Well, people will get used to usplash. New users know nothing but
> usplash. If suddenly it disappears (and it will, once every so-many
> boots during fsck) they get scared. It's just the same as when windows
> during booting checks the filesystem - blue screen with white letters
> all over again :)

I think this is being exaggerated.  fsck displays a reasonable progress bar
with percentage completion, and when it's finished, the boot process
continues and the user sees the familiar login screen.  It's not ideal, but
it does something reasonable and isn't a showstopper for Breezy.

Contrast with the blue screen of death, which indicates a catastrophic
failure and never continues.

-- 
 - mdz



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