Further usplash development

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Wed Aug 31 02:37:45 CDT 2005


On di, 2005-08-30 at 22:46 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I exaggerated a bit, and it's definitely not a showstopper. It is a
nice-thing-to-have though.

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

I did not mean BSOD here - when windows does chkdisk on boot you also
get a ligthblue screen with white letters :)
-- 
Dennis K.
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