Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (458 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 04 février 2014 à 11:12 +0100, dieter a écrit :
> Am Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:52:15 +0100
> schrieb Frederic Crozat:
>
> > Le mardi 04 février 2014 à 10:41 +0100, Ludwig Nussel a écrit :
> > > Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > > Le mardi 04 février 2014 à 06:14 +0100, Raymond Wooninck a écrit :
> > > > > On Sunday 02 February 2014 12:24:29 sfalken@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > > I could take one of them over, Raymond.   Don't have any
> > > > > > particular knowledge about either package, but I've got the
> > > > > > time.
> > > > > Hi Shawn,
> > > > >
> > > > > Great. Thanks a lot. As discussed on IRC, I will transfer today
> > > > > the "ownership" of DRACUT to you on OBS and bugzilla.
> > > > >
> > > > > Only package remaining is Plymouth and I guess that people
> > > > > rather see it disappear than to help out.
> > > >
> > > > No, I don't want to see it disappear at all (since it has
> > > > replaced all other boot splash alternative, for the good)  but I
> > > > don't have time to maintain it.
> > >
> > > How long does the average system nowadays take until X starts up? If
> > > there is a black screen for a few seconds, so what? That's the time
> > > the initrd takes to load if plymouth is in there anyways ;-)
> >
> > Plymouth also allows smooth transition (no flicker) between splash and
> > display manager. And it can display a non frightening UI to request
> > passphrase for encrypted disk.
> displaying the non frightening (G)UI to request the passphrase seems 
> (often) not to work in 13.1:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851960

Which is exactly why we need somebody to actively maintain plymouth..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE

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