Will there be a boot splash like the one in suse, mandrake?

[Donkey3000]

>  Imho, wouldnt it be easier if it was enabled by default but you can
> remove it via synaptic/aptitude/apt.
> 
>  Hence if it causes a hardware problem, if you can get to a console
> you can remove it and be fine, assuming that the more advanced users
> will not want a nice pretty little bootsplash.
> 
Wouldn't it be just an option in grubs menu.lst that you can edit with any
text editor?