Plymouth text version

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

One thing about installing cryptsetup by default as a means of starting plymouth early: it does not require any changes from a "vanilla" install of Ubuntu, as an early start to plymouth is then the normal behavior in Ubuntu. Nothing to maintain but the theme, the rest is upstream Ubuntu, cryptsetup, and plymouth mantainance. In fact, live disks also have cryptsetup installed, so as to permit them to read encrypted volumes. That also is probably why plymouth starts early on a live disk, though I can't verify that having never made a live installer from an installed  filesystem.

As such, it is possible to start plymouth at kernel modeswitch simply by installing cryptsetup, and not have to implement nor maintain anything not part of vanilla Ubuntu.

On 11/12/2012 at 4:28 PM, "Antoine Thomas" <ttoine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Both. For me Ubuntu Studio should behave the same way than Vanilla 
>with our
>artwork. I don't see why we should do something different. And I 
>guess that
>most of end users don't care, if it works well.
>
>If it can save time too for other more important stuff then it is 
>good too.
>Le 12 nov. 2012 22:02, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> a écrit :
>
>>
>> On Mon, November 12, 2012 12:45 pm, ttoine wrote:
>> > I think that we should (if possible) let plymouth like in 
>Vanilla Ubuntu.
>> > And only changing lighdm.
>>
>> Just to be clear, You are talking about how and when plymouth is 
>started
>> rather than the "artwork" for plymouth?
>>
>> > 2012/11/12 Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, November 12, 2012 10:45 am, lukefromdc at hushmail.com 
>wrote:
>> >> > There are other ways to make plymouth start quickly than 
>installing
>> >> > cryptsetup, but that's the easiest way for an end user and 
>least
>> >> likely
>> >> to
>> >> > get reverted by some update.
>> >>
>> >> The first question for studio is do we want to fix this? 
>Should Ubuntu
>> >> Studio set plymouth to start earlier than vanilla to avoid a 
>long blank
>> >> screen during boot?
>> >>
>> >> Comments please!
>> >>
>> >> I think we need to decide this before we decide the 
>versioning issue.
>> >>
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