James Milligan wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Alan Pope wrote: >> >> >>> 2009/8/13 Rob Beard <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Liam Wilson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> For those who haven't seen them, the new boot/login screens have been >>>>> unveiled by the art team. I think the do look rather darn sweet! >>>>> >>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Ooh I like that, very polished. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> From what I've seen that's not the final version, but a demo that was >>> put to the art team. >>> >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2009-August/011206.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Will Ubuntu 9.10 be implementing Plymouth or will it still use USplash? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Neither AIUI. >>> >>> We'll have X start very early on and that will provide the splash >>> screen type experience. So no need for usplash or plymouth. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Al. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I see, well it certainly looks very nice anyway, much better than the >> Windows boot screens. >> >> Rob >> >> > +1!!! > > James > > I read that it uses xSplash, not Usplash or Plymouth, which I guess has something to do with X, and it not being a separate application/process, which may reduce boot times or some other technical stuff. It does look pretty amazing though.
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