Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com> (2014-01-03): > I know that plymouth had a problem with '--retain-splash' and gdm > 3.4 but that has been fixed by introducing gdm 3.8. Ah, that might be what I saw a few months ago. > Currently plymouth has only one bug and that is tagged moreinfo. Yes, I checked the BTS before replying. I'm just not sure end users having troubles to boot are actually able to work around those issues and to report bugs. (I've at least seen people switch distro instead of figuring out what went wrong.) > Also I think there is some race condition in sysvinit, so that > sometimes when shutting down, plymouth is killed too early, but this > problem vanished for me, as I switched to a modern init system. Yeah, and race conditions can be quite dramatic, since hanging instead of rebooting or failing to get an encrypted volume's passphrase are a big pain. Let's see how the init system discussion goes and think about it after that? I suspect prodding desktop environment maintainers to see how they see it might be a good idea. (Also, ISTR systemd might get some splashscreen features. Not sure if it's possibly obsoleting plymouth, or paving its way forward.) Mraw, KiBi.
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