On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 12:28 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> [060730 02:40]: > > well we'll leave it at pretty pictures then. > > > > I've never liked progress bars, etc. But many people do. > > We used to do a progress bar some time when I did the bootsplash at > SUSE, but it never was as accurate as one would want it to be. > So we dropped it again. Progress bars simply dont work for this kinda > stuff.
The OS X thing isn't a progress _bar_, but a spinning wheel of sorts. It doesn't show some arbitrary completion percentage, it's purpose is to say "I'm doing something and I'm not frozen." See here: http://magazine.sharereactor.ru/pictures/Image/Raiker/macosx_x86_review/boot1.jpg That little thing under the apple spins until the kernel has booted and userspace begins to execute. Progress bars in Linux startup are generally useless because startup is such a shellscript mess that you cannot get useful status information out of anything. Dan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
