de-uglyfying usplash, replace it with splashy/upower?

[Patrick McFarland]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 18:38, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:35 +1200, Jason Taylor wrote:
> > Just to put my 2 cents in resume/sleep dosn't work on my laptop
> > anyway, and I dont use it on the desktop, could we not at least start
> > with usplash and have the option to easily upgrade?
>
> It seems a slightly odd priority to spend more time making a boot screen
> that most people will never really look at pretty than improving support
> for hardware.
>
> I like shiny as much as the next man, but I prefer "works".

I agree here, Ubuntu is not Redhat, nor should it turn into Redhat. Or Gentoo. 
Or SuSE. Or whatever other flawed distro of the week. And I don't mean that 
in any flamebaity way, either.

<rant>

The only reason I use Ubuntu is because it just happens to be the best distro 
in existence. It does everything right, from starting with Debian (the former 
title holder), and keeping Debian ideals (such as a pretty well designed 
packaging policy and whatnot), to increasing desktop usability (which Debian 
kind of lacked, or at least, didn't focus on, which isn't that bad at all), 
to not being gimicky (such as Redhat's utter obsession with looking pretty, 
above all other things... other distros have been caught doing this too).

</rant>

So, yeah, in short, I prefer working above eyecandy, as does everyone else.

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