Errrm ;-) It's very bad thing to hide boot messages even for novice users.
They can't bugreport in this way ... I thing the best way would be the
penguin logo at the top, and some pixel progress bar under Tux. The messages
should remain IMHO. But this bar indicator confuses me. How do you calculate
the remaining percentage? And of course this is kernel boot only. After init,
you can start costum process to show an indicator bar to messure remaining
tasks before hitting xdm/kdm/gdm/login/whatever.
But IMHO *hiding* kernel messages is the worst thing you can do ...
Probably a versatile parameterable boot logo + indicator setting tool
should be implemented (and of course the right code to the kernel to render
them on startup). It can include (let's say:)
position and size of text area inside the screen (kernel messages)
background picture
progress bar indicator attributes, position
and so on
Again: I'm AGAINST this stupid thing but if many user wants ...
However HIDING kernel messages would be bad move ....
Major distributions include default kernels patched for nice boot screens,
so IMHO it isn't an issue for us. A user how can COMPILE kernel himself
probably does not want gfx-only boot screens .... or at least he can patch
kernel before compile it.
- Gabor
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