Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324
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
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