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Idea #23894: Remove Boot Splash when a PC boots fast enough

Written by Apiman the 6 Mar 10 at 12:00. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I'm amazed about how Ubuntu's boot time has been improved through the last releases. I like Lucid's new splash design, but I'm roughly able to see it during boot. After GRUB menu is displayed, the screen remains black for a while during kernel initialization so this "black" period seems difficult to be eliminated. After this stage, the splash screen is displayed for less than 1 second. Then, gdm login screen is loaded.
This gives a too flickering boot experience.

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Solution #1: Remove boot splash on fast boots
Written by Apiman the 6 Mar 10 at 12:00.
When a Pc boots in less than 10 sec, boot splash start loosing it's sense.
I think it will be a good idea to remove boot splash (just black screen) in this cases. Boot time analysis could be done from previous boots.
However, boot splash should still be displayed when tasks like filesystem checks are performed.
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Solution #2: Use crossfades
Written by rfsmit the 16 Mar 10 at 00:21.
Crossfade from one state to another. As soon as you press a key or move the mouse on the greeter (or desktop, if you autologin), it accelerates any fade to the final state.

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