Mario Goebbels wrote: > Here some wishes regarding the visuals, since a lot of the system experience > is in that: > > - A decent out-of-the-box theme for Gnome. Both Metacity and GTK. Don't be > shy asking from the public community, like Gnome-Looks or whoever else. > Nimbus is nice, but not attractive enough. I guess even Clearlooks would do, > which seems to be default in a lot of Linux distros. > > - Support for high color splashscreens, where possible. > > For instance, the x86 hardware environment usually boasts support for VESA, > so that shouldn't be a problem. A solution could be driver based, since GRUB > seems incapable for the requested scenario. Said splashscreen driver is the > first to be fired up by the kernel, which then immediately copies the > splashscreen from the boot archive (or whatever else place, since it needs to > be user customizable) to the screen. > > Improvements to that, would be sort of a simple API, to manage a progress bar > and render one or two text lines into the splashscreen. The positioning would > be controllable by the API or some attributes in the splashscreen file > itself. Text and progressbar display could be used to display what's > currently happening, e.g. by the kernel and the SMF framework. The > splashscreen would disappear when the appropriate SMF milestone has been > reached (e.g. single/multi user mode), and switch back to text mode (or not, > if the graphical-login service is enabled, to prevent unnecessary mode > switching).
This was prototyped a while ago as part of a Sun-internal project named "CoolStart", and you can see some of it by following the instructions in Jan's blog at <http://blogs.sun.com/setje/> - but as noted, the big blocker there (which I don't think has yet been solved) is the lack of a good way to deal with things going wrong that need console interaction - errors reported from services or filesystems needing to fsck, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
