Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, April 02, 2012, Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why does this option make it impossible to change the plymough theme?
> My guess would be that changing the theme would "just" require to run
> mkinitrd...

It depends on how the option is implemented. If we want to do it correctly and 
still have the freedom to change plymouth themes, then plymouth itself has to 
support this option. Currently this is not the case and therefore the quick 
and dirty solution would impact theme switching as that the theme itself has 
to handle these PNG files.

> > 2)  We add the required fonts and the Pango framework to the initrd, so
> > that plymouth can show text messages while the /usr partition is not
> > available yet. This would increate the size of the initrd.
>
> "bigger initrd" is a relative term - are you talking about 50kB or 10 MB
> here? (Besides that: does a bigger initrd do any harm?)

I have never tried to build such a initrd. However I got indications that the 
Pango/Cairo libraries are required together with the required fonts and that 
this seemed not desirable.
 
> For now, all options are OK for me (in other words: don't let the
> passphrase dialog block everything regarding plymouth), but on the long
> term I'd like to see option 1 or 2 implemented ;-)

I agree with you that plymouth is all about increasing the boot experience for 
the user and this should not create a disappointment. There is a fifth option 
where only a password dialog box is shown with a "lock" symbol. This is what 
is currently implemented, but this of course does not indicate why the system 
is asking for a password, nor for which LUKS device it is asking the 
passphrase.

Raymond
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