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Idea #20511: In order to have the impression of booting directly to the desktop

Written by darius the 3 Jul 09 at 09:17. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Imagine you'd switch on your computer and the first thing you see is your wallpaper with a progress bar on it, the upsplash. Then followed by the GDM, using your wallpaper as a background as well and finally your desktop.
That would provide a nice and consistent boot experience, and also be quite impressing when someone boots a live CD for the first time, wouldn't it?

Sure this whole idea falls apart, when there are multiple users on one machine using different wallpapers, but I still think it would be a nice option.
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Solution #1: An easier way to change the upsplash look, display upsplash longer
Written by darius the 3 Jul 09 at 09:17.
To achieve this (even though there'd still be a black screen between entering the Desktop and exiting the upsplash) I tried to create my own custom upsplash using my wallpaper. I failed. This just way to complicated!
It would be great if one could just set a background (and screen resolution, StartUp-Manager only supports very few) to use as upsplash background on which is then a progress bar being rendered. There is also this two seconds in which you have a black screen with only the mouse pointer on it, between the upsplash and the Desktop. Is it possible to have the upsplash vanish in the very moment, in which the Desktop wallpaper is displayed? If not, it would be nice to have that.
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Solution #2: Better intgration with usplash
Written by gotham48 the 27 Jul 09 at 12:43.
Integrate GRUB, usplash, GDM and Gnome Desktop into the boot process.

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Lachu wrote on the 3 Jul 09 at 10:55
Fedora project provide Pylmounth. It can be helped to achieved proposition.

You must know, that it's necessary to input your username and password on system startup.

It can be very great for user expirence, like integration with Network Manager.

yzarc wrote on the 4 Jul 09 at 13:13
the karmic may be release with boot splash over X stack which would be load in less than 3 seconds. it will permit to use all graphic resource of you computer, even 3D acceleration, instants after you turned on your computer.

put a wallpaper in the loading screen will be a minimal thing beside the new possibilities.

ps. this idea will lose sense in shared computers, computers with more than one user.

nloewen wrote on the 5 Jul 09 at 16:30
@Lachu

Plymouth won't be used because it loads to slow to be worth it with the target boot speed.

edm1 wrote on the 6 Jul 09 at 23:19
also, usplash won't be used in 9.10 unless fsck is being carried out or a password is required to unlock an encrypted partition, again, because of the target boot speed of 10 seconds by ubuntu 10.04. That's 10 seconds to an idle cpu not log in.

gotham48 wrote on the 27 Jul 09 at 15:10
I've heard, what GDM will support fading throught login window and desktop in next versions. Also GRUB2 have all chances to be integrated with them.


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