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Now it'd be nice to add some kind of animated logo to the boot process. Windows has the little spinner, macOS has a progress bar, and even Ubuntu has a five-dot

Now it'd be nice to add some kind of animated logo to the boot process. Windows has the little spinner, macOS has a progress bar, and even Ubuntu has a five-dots progress bar thing to indicate boot progress. I mocked up an animated logo really quickly here: https://imgur.com/gallery/Zt6K55V https://imgur.com/gallery/Zt6K55V (disclaimer: I don't have rights to the logo, it's just a toy test and shouldn't be used for anything serious, etc.) Some other ideas: a little ball rolling around the infinity logo (maybe eventually rolling back to center and unfolding into the "f"), a pair of "tubes" moving around which occasionally intersect to make the "f" shape, etc. I think this is a good opportunity to do something interesting with the boot screen!

SuperPaintMan 8y ago
Honestly my vote is to bring back the Beefy Miracle. Let the mustard once again indicate progress! (The Plymouth splash for Beefy Miracle had a friendly hotdog with arms waving at you while a mustard squiggle filled itself in up it’s body. Once the hotdog was fully dressed, you were booted!)
tokai 8y ago
There is an animated boot logo in fedora. I guess it'll be put in before the beta is over? https://media.giphy.com/media/1dHYPKjEW1vKZyBORH/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/1dHYPKjEW1vKZyBORH/giphy.gif (the animation is very quick in this gif, on a slow machine the contour of the fedora logo fills up slowly from low left to top right)
LarryMade2 8y ago
A always thought Hackers movie style animated boot-up screens would be awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQlZU5oWTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQlZU5oWTQ
Terretta 8y ago
You can go the other direction too, you can make macOS show you the boot text by setting to boot in “verbose mode”: sudo nvram boot-args="-v" More details: http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/25/always-boot-mac-os-x-in-verbose-mode/ http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/25/always-boot-mac-os-x-in-verbo...

SuperPaintMan 8y ago

Honestly my vote is to bring back the Beefy Miracle. Let the mustard once again indicate progress! (The Plymouth splash for Beefy Miracle had a friendly hotdog with arms waving at you while a mustard squiggle filled itself in up it’s body. Once the hotdog was fully dressed, you were booted!)

tokai 8y ago

There is an animated boot logo in fedora. I guess it'll be put in before the beta is over? https://media.giphy.com/media/1dHYPKjEW1vKZyBORH/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/1dHYPKjEW1vKZyBORH/giphy.gif (the animation is very quick in this gif, on a slow machine the contour of the fedora logo fills up slowly from low left to top right)

LarryMade2 8y ago

A always thought Hackers movie style animated boot-up screens would be awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQlZU5oWTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQlZU5oWTQ

Terretta 8y ago

You can go the other direction too, you can make macOS show you the boot text by setting to boot in “verbose mode”: sudo nvram boot-args="-v" More details: http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/25/always-boot-mac-os-x-in-verbose-mode/ http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/25/always-boot-mac-os-x-in-verbo...