Feature changed by: Jakub Steiner (jimmacfx) Feature #305493, revision 42 Title: Look at plymouth for splash during boot openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: I wanted to open a fate feature about this when I first heard of plymouth, but reading http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-s... really makes me think we should go this way. Ray's comment starting with "Every flicker and mode change in the boot process takes away from the whole experience." is especially interesting. Is it okay to track the "don't show grub by default" here? Discussion: #1: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m) (2008-11-30 00:32:58) Cool idea. #2: Kevin Dupuy (kdupuy9) (2009-01-17 21:42:12) I like this idea. Flickers, dropping to text, etc. makes any OS look unprofessional. #3: Armin Moradi (amoradi) (2009-01-19 19:49:55) Agreed, those flickers are very unprofessional and annoying. #4: Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse (svnieuw) (2009-01-20 15:22:17) With plymouth it would also be possible tot deliver a nice bootsplash for far more setups than now are available. For example, my laptop does not have an appropriate 16-bit widescreen framebuffer mode. Currently the options are to have a stretched splash or have the framebuffer set to the native (non 16-bit) resolution with bootsplash disabled. With Fedora 10's plymouth I am able to get a good looking startup. #5: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) (2009-02-18 04:54:31) Please lets not have another "green" technology put into the distro until it is completely ready. Usability has to become a priority before "bells and whistles" at the cost of basic functionality. The last few releases we have been pushing unready projects into the distro while they are unstable and immature ie: PulseAudio, KDE 4.0, Beagle, etc and it always turns around to bite openSUSE in the rear end. #6: Eric Springer (erikina) (2009-02-22 03:10:46) (reply to #5) Absolutely. However, my experience of plymouth has been all positive (unlike all those technologies you have listed). My understanding is that plymouth degrades gracefully on all hardware that doesn't support it, leaving it no worse off. So if this is the case, and we're sure that it's not going to cause problems -- I'd really like to see it in openSUSE.<br /><br /> But yeah, stability/usability before shininess. #7: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-03-01 16:50:55) Not sure where the problem is.. the openSUSE CD/DVD seemed to have only two video mode switches - one as the bootloader moves into graphics mode, and another when X is about to come up. #8: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) (2009-03-01 17:11:00) (reply to #7) Ya the appeal eludes me too. It's not like CRT's are the mainstream anymore where you hear the *click* *click* even anymore. #9: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2009-06-02 05:36:05) Since 11.2 will ship a new kernel (KMS) and xorg 1.6 this is a good idea to replace the old bootsplash (unmaintained). Please review this feature. #10: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) (2009-06-13 19:50:07) Consider this a vote for plymouth, grub2, and hiden grub menu when there is only one OS. #11: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) (2009-06-22 04:28:18) (reply to #10) I agree: plymouth, grub2 and the hidden grub menu would be desirable #12: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2009-07-20 04:32:50) There are some packages available for openSUSE Factory[1]. Don't know what's the status since i didn't test it yet. 1 - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/etrash:/plymouth/openSUSE_Fa... #13: Holger Macht (hmacht) (2009-07-20 09:59:34) Just a note to keep the graphical suspend in mind. We currently use splashy for suspend/resume and bootsplash.org for booting. Whatever there is done, please consider getting rid of the second splash system in openSUSE. There should only be one which is used both for suspend and booting. #14: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2009-07-20 17:20:55) Yes is not acceptable using 2 applications for common stuff. We should move to splashy (which supports both features) or plymouth. Anyone want to came with a theme for opensuse ? Maybe the artwork team have a word here. + #15: Jakub Steiner (jimmacfx) (2009-07-20 20:14:11) (reply to #14) + the artwork "team" has to create themes for both splashy and bootsplash + now. On top of that, bootsplash has a really nasty theming system. I + would really favor having to worry about splashy only. + + The flicker-free aspect of plymouth is extremely appealing, so if it + can do what splashy does, let's go for it. + + I really just wish the bootsplash zombie died for opensuse at last! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305493