On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Joe Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, John Dong <jd...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > It's familiar, and when something stalls it's suddenly not familiar. > > I don't have to care WHAT it's doing, just as long as it's doing > > something, and telling me what it's doing. Apple used to do this in > > System 7 and System 8 at least by showing icons during boot, > > signifying what part of the boot process it was currently in. > There is no "part" of bootup progress anymore. Everything happens together in > parallel as long as its dependencies are met, and can be arbitrary order > during bootup. IO traffic in an unrelated bootup job can cause a seemingly > small other job to "stall". > > It's not at all surprising that non-linear booted OS'es like OS X 10.4+, > Ubuntu with Upstart, Windows 2000+, etc do not attempt to show a linear > progress bar. > > Why not show a panel of greyed-out icons at the bottom of the screen, one for > each major component, and light up each icon as the corresponding component > is initialized? This would reflect the correct abstraction (and if the icons > had captions, users would have some idea of what was wrong if the boot > process stalled). > I agree with you, a lightup panel of Upstart jobs with status indications is a really good bootup visual. I'd like to see this feature implemented. Any volunteers? :)
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