Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

[Kubuntiac]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Just quizzed "The Riddler" on this on IRC, and I quoth:

<Riddell> the idea is that X starts so quickly you don't need a splash, a splash would just delay things more
<Riddell> whether this works in practice is unclear

and...

<Riddell> we really should have an FAQ about that

Make of that what you will, sportsfans. The Truth is Out There!

[dibl]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

That actually makes sense to me -- the only real purpose of a graphical splash screen (i.e. one that is not for announcing license rights) is to give the user a reason to hope the booting process hasn't failed, while he's waiting for his desktop. If the booting process is pretty fast, then he's going to see his desktop fairly soon and not need the reinforcement.

[Rog131]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

This > [ubuntu/karmic] usplash 0.5.41 (Accepted) tells:

...
Always enable usplash for 9.10 to hide boot messages, since we aren't
yet ready to make it show up only on relatively slow boots (usplash
tends to slow down boot on SSD-based systems). We'll revisit this for
10.04 (LP: #444362)
....

> Bug 444362: [ boot-experience] status/debugging text incorrectly appears on boot

+ linux-image-generic 2.6.31.13.24 and now here is a short usplash to hide the status lines...

[dicairo]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?


after today updatesssssssssssssssssss i have it (boot spalsh)
what about u ?

[Teunis]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

After the latest updates I too get a (few seconds only) boot splash of Kubuntu.

Booting to the graphical log in is quite a bit quicker than the start up of KDE afterwards.