Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:36 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> I agree with you completely....   but is there a way (like there is in SuSE), 
> to hit a button (ESC?) and cause the messages to appear from that pretty 
> screen?

Ctrl-Alt-F? I think, but that's really not discoverable

> There may be but I don't know what it is.   *That* is all that is needed and 
> then I think most people could live with it.

There is certainly nothing to be said against improving the boot
feedback, far from it. All I'm saying (whatever Steve and Bart seem to
read into it) that scrolling cryptic messages by default is not an
improvement, and then I somewhat overstated my opposition against an
option ;) Not so much because of the actual option, but because of how
easily the "gimme an option" card was used, when we just went through
all that during the Gnome 1.x -> 2.x transition (at which time _all that
can be said really was said. That's why I linked to the Havoc Pennington
essay).