Please, stop talking about eye candy if you don't have a deep understanding of UI design. The most important aspects of UI are about presenting information in

Please, stop talking about eye candy if you don't have a deep understanding of UI design. The most important aspects of UI are about presenting information in a way that is comprehensible. Flashing error messages on screen for less than a second is confusing--either the information is important and needs to be visible for longer, or it should be relegated to a log file somewhere. Upthread, someone said that showing all the output of the init scripts in a tty feels cheap. I agree that it feels cheap--and it feels cheap because it suggest something about the computer. Older OSes spent a lot of time displaying initialization script outputs to the screen because that you had to know about it. At any time, that shit might be broken, and you (or your sysadmin) would have to reconfigure it. That's the wrong message to send to your average Ubuntu user. So if you thought that complaint or many of the complaints from the initial article were about "eye candy" you were wrong.