IMHO, the boot progress messages can be completely removed. They serve no
purpose whatsoever to the end user.
Although you might need to change the progress bar to something that's
constantly animated (like Windows's startup bar) so that people know the bootup
is still progressing, if it takes
This maybe an aim for dapper+1 to remove the text and make the startup more Mac
OSX-ish.
IIRC, jdub was keen on this.
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal => Wishlist
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
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usplash messages look a little bland and a little intimidating
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The text while booting and shutting down looks very bad and primitive.
Look at SUSE Linux 10.1's bootup splash. It's simply elegant! If we
want, we can press Esc to see the actual messages but till then we have
just a graphical screen with something moving to indicate the progress
of the bootup.
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>> a) GRUB menu should have a spalsh screen.
>
> a) was decided to not begin done, as we (and grub) faced problems
> with /boot being on different partitions.
What does this package do then?: grub-splashimages_1.0.0_all.deb
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usplash messages look a little bland and a little intimidating
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It's a package of images (eg. different distribution logos and penguins,
I suspect) that you can use with the 'splash' argument in grub. As far
as I know, you will have to configure them independantly.
$ apt-cache show grub-splashimages | grep ^Description: -A4
Description: a collection of g
