Comment # 3 on bug 1149070 from Stasiek Michalski

(In reply to Felix Miata from comment #1)
> (In reply to Stasiek Michalski from comment #0)
> > ...without entering a less friendly looking console.
> 
> White on black is friendly, maximum contrast, easy to see, unlike green on
> gray or gray on green. White on black is part of existing necessities, so
> takes up no extra space on installation media.

Current Tumbleweed splash is white on black, albeit with larger fonts and more
branding (and well, better looking overall).

(In reply to Steffen Winterfeldt from comment #2)
> Well, we've *had* something like this in pre-plymouth times (with kernel
> splash).
> 
> Then we switched to plymouth, had to cut down on features, and since then
> nobody
> really cared.
> 
> FWIW, the old progress update function even still exists (and is called in
> the
> code at intervalls):
> 
> https://github.com/openSUSE/linuxrc/blob/master/util.c#L1669
> 
> Also, note that the last step(s) (should) happen not in linuxrc but in the
> yast
> startup scripts.

Ah, that's really helpful, thank you for that tip!