If I remember correctly from discussions at the time and from looking at those bugs, "Coolstart" was a project to change the graphics in Solaris 10 and higher so that the various places where graphics were used (grub background, cdelogin, xscreensaver, gnome etc) all had a consistent look, and a new look that was a bit "cooler" than what was there before. For example the JDS 3 theme was replaced with the new "nimbus" theme which is now the default for gnome on Solaris, and we also gained some nice Solaris, Sun and Java wallpapers at the same time.
The "seemless boot progress graphics" definitely used to work on some systems - I had it working on my old home PC using the instructions from http://blogs.sun.com/setje/entry/faster_seamless_boot_progress_graphics . So that's at least one person outwith Sun who had it working. :-) I suspect direct boot, which integrated in January 2007, may have broken it. Cheers Andrew. > Ch? Kristo wrote: > > Do you mean something kind of like this: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup > > Yes, and we've looked a little at what Fedora is > doing to see if there's > anything we should learn from/use from them. > > > Was there ever a coolstart project? If so can you > provide a link? > > Yes there was, but it was before we really had > projects going on OpenSolaris, > so there aren't many external links, beyond the blogs > of the engineers involved > at the time, such as: > > http://blogs.sun.com/setje/entry/happiness_through_ign > orance > http://blogs.sun.com/setje/entry/faster_seamless_boot_ > progress_graphics > > and the bugs that show up when you search for keyword > "CoolStart": > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/search.do?keyword=coolstar > t&process=1 > > It was a team of people from ON, X, JDS and our UI > design team to improve the > look and feel of bootup, login, gnome startup, > session lock and logout. > > We haven't really worked on it as a unified > cross-consolidation project in > several years (the original push was for S10U2, and > most of the putbacks to > Nevada were done by build 35), but we continue to get > some improvements in > these areas as individual bug fixes/RFEs, mostly > coordinated through the > Indiana project these days. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System > em Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
