Hey Daniel, Great to see the boot time improved and simplified!
El día 20 de marzo de 2012 19:09, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> escribió: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[email protected]> wrote: >> - How easy is it to implement something nice? I see Manuel's already >> been asking you about it, and it'd be great to have something cool ;-) > > The complexity of the task depends on the complexity of the graphic. > But as we really need to be light-weight, that means we have an > automatic requirement of only displaying simple graphics. Max 1 frame > change per second, I would say. If something nice can be designed > within these kinds of bounds, it can be put in place with ease. > > However, due to the overall boot time decrease, and increase in > startup parallelization, I'm seeing that we have very little time to > do anything animated. The initramfs starts the animation and then > boots the rest of the system, providing a window of maybe 3-4 seconds > while we animate. Then the X startup starts, which means we *must* > freeze the screen immediately to avoid blanks and flashes (at this > point, my initial theme draws 3 dots and freezes). This was tested on > XO-1.5, I imagine XO-1.75 will be even faster. > >> - Something easily customizable? -- thinking of OOB splicing in images > > The olpc plugin currently allows for one custom image to be displayed > in addition to the default ones. > > Plymouth is an easily customizable platform, it comes with various > themes and a powerful and quite easy scripting language allowing you > to create more. Taking into account your considerations (one frame per second animation, no time for fancy stuff, and also not needed) I did this mockup: http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/bootmock.gif It preserves the ring and makes it a spinner animation of 4 frames. The freeze image has all dots the same color. What do you think? -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
