On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:13:41PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > Alle 02:01, mercoledì 30 giugno 2004, Andres Salomon ha scritto: > > > >> I want to "open" a discussion about this bug on the debian-kernel > > >> mailing list: > > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253224 > > > Heh, when I first saw this post, I was ready to agree w/ Herbert (feh, > > unnecessary eyecandy). > > Same to me. > > > Then I went to the page; the screenshots are > > impressive. > > Yes! It will really helps the "debian desktop experience" IMHO. > > > I'd be up for adding this sort of thing, as long as the > > impact to users who don't want it (in disk space, memory, and > > processor cycles) is minimal. > > The kernel patch is small, the userspace is trival and the media space is 1% > of e.g. kde-artworks eye candy stuff. > > > I recently set up a Debian box for my mom, > > and she asked about all the obscure boot messages that come up; it would > > be nice to have a graphical display that could hide all that. > > Same to me here too, but instead of my mom, she was m girlfriend and a low > techie friend that bought a computer from me (debian-only obviously, no > double boot or such). > > The low techie people I came across think that anything beside graphics are > "old computing" or recovery broken things... so a bootsplash help they to > trust the operating system (the computer as whole object from their point of > view). > > Suse already has bootsplash (it seems that they pushed some developing in it > also), and debian is just a few patch away from it (mainly mkinitrd support > and a kernel-patch). > > But if the debian-kernel team agree on not having bootsplash support, I will > be silent until I can make easy (not more word but patch bytes!) for your > team to add it.
I don't know if we agree, it was not even discussed, so thanks for your input. Friendly, Sven Luther
