Plymouth text version

[Ho Wan Chan]

>
> As we are starting a new cycle, The text version of plymouth needs to be
> updated. There was some discussion and it was noted that the graphics
> version of plymouth has no version displayed. We are wondering if we
> should just drop the versioning on the text version as well or not. The
> text version shows up if the ISO is being tested on/in a vbox and may be
> helpful to remind the tester what version they are working on... if that
> person does a lot of testing of different versions :)
>

Hmm since I DO do a lot of testing of different versions (and a fan of
Vbox) I am going to support it. Vote: Yes

>
> For those who don't know, plymouth is what displays the ubuntustudio
> symbol with the wheel effect around it in the graphics version and the
> words Ubuntu Studio XX.XX with the moving dots under in the text version.
>
> Quite aside from that however, I would suggest that the backdrop for
> lightdm should have the version number somewhere... And I would suggest
> using numbers rather than the "code name". Some of the code names good,
> some are not... (precise was good, but raring?). Even if the session
> backdrop had the version added to a corner that would be fine.
>

Just the version number, the codenames aren't really important compared to
version numbers.

smartboyhw
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