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found this snippet: <snip> * Thu Oct 23 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.23.1 - Add patch from Charlie to align progress bar to milestones during boot up </snip> this article has useful info: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_plymouth&num=1 On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 May 2009, at 19:40, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > >> Gary C Martin wrote: >>> On 30 May 2009, at 18:50, Walter Bender wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> [snip] >>>>> For Sugar, the new "Hello World" tutorial could be its boot >>>>> Activities for >>>>> Learners: Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, >>>>> others, even >>>>> Forth) should provide an Activity to build the start-up sequence. >>>>> Learners >>>>> could play with the tools to build an endless variety of start-up >>>>> spots, >>>>> modify and preview from a library of saved sequences, learn all >>>>> sorts of >>>>> things about the system, the different tools, and of course, >>>>> designate one >>>>> sequence to display on the next boot. >>>> >>>> Fred has sparked an idea. What if we replace the dots with activity >>>> icons? >>> >>> Hmmm, activities shown might not be installed and then lead to >>> confusion >>> (unless you are considering the difficult step of pre-generating boot >>> graphics at shutdown). >>> >>> There's a fine line between cool eye-candy – and there are plenty of >>> cool Sugary lickable animations we could try, activity icons being >>> one – >>> and boot UI feedback utility :-) >>> >>> Now... If the technical boot stages could be made clear (device/ >>> keyboard >>> checks, network detection, certain key services, etc) it could be of >>> real use to have some simplified abstract icon for each stage so >>> you'd >>> have an idea for what really might be going on (or where a boot/ >>> hardware >>> problem was) – but realistically that's more of a long term UI >>> opportunity**. >>> >>> ** Sebastian: Do you know just where/when each progress update is >>> triggered, and what major boot landmark could be sensible to visually >>> indicate success of? >> >> Sorry, I'm not exactly sure *when* it gets triggered. What I can >> tell you from looking at the tarball is that there are also other >> themes, which contain a different number of .png files. For example, >> there's one, that contains 32 progress and 19 throbber .png files. >> So I guess plymouth adjusts what gets displayed to the number of >> images. I suppose there's one event which triggers the change from >> showing the progress to the throbber files, but I'm not sure, what >> it is. From my experience, the throbber files are shown rather late >> in the boot process, shortly before logging in. > > Thanks understood, I think getting clever with the progress icons > indicating real boot events is pushing the boat out a little too far > just now. I was digging about for plymouth guides or instructions for > 'creatives' and there is almost nothing I could find except a README > and the source code. A real quick skim gave me the impression that the > plymouthd daemon does the main work, and then you go lace your > relevant/desired start-up scripts with plymouth commands letting > plymouthd know some progress state had passed. > > One quick note, I'm on a MacBook Pro here so can only test Soas using > VirtualBox. I think it's only ever showing the 'text' boot animation > mode for me (black screen with blue/stripy progress bar at bottom with > the word Soas at the right end). Just wanted to mention this as it > means I can't see what you have done with the boot already, and can't > tinker about and test this for real myself. > >> Ray Strode (halfline in #fedora-devel) is one of the developers and >> has been really helpful with regard to my questions when hacking the >> logo into plymouth. He might know. > > Thanks, will keep that in mind. > > Regards, > --Gary > >> --Sebastian >> >>> Regards >>> --Gary >>> >>>> -walter >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Walter Bender >>>> Sugar Labs >>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
