On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 10:59 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
Thanks :-) not as blindingly fast as I was worried about.
There are some tricks that they pull to make the whole process *seem* faster. MacOS does the same: * You never get prompted like with Grub; after the BIOS's POST screen disappears, you *think* that the "starting windows" progress bar appears instantaneously, when in reality it's probably giving you about a second to hit the magic hotkey for an interactive boot. * No flicker when switching from the boot screen to the login screen --- we of course can do this now with KMS and all that. * Whenever a video switch would occur, they first fade the screen to black, *then* do the video switch, then fade the screen back to normal. You only see a smooth transition instead of an abrupt jump. * After you enter your login password, the login manager fades to black, then the desktop gets loaded, then it fades back to normal. You see your desktop icons and the Start bar immediately, from the beginning, without any "halfway-loaded" stage. We could totally do this with some help of gnome-session. The summary is that they try to minimize abrupt transitions, by using fading and other visual tricks, and the end result is that you feel everything to be smooth and fast. Federico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+help@opensuse.org