Super-slick boot

Registered by Mark Shuttleworth

This blueprint has been superseded. See the newer blueprint "Karmic Start up Look and Feel" for updated plans.

Thanks to the superb work of Matt Garrett and company, we now have a very impressive usplash which is nicely extensible. We will review the entire boot experience and see if we can make it as seamless as the Mac boot experience, with clean transitions between boot stages. This spec will summarize our findings and plans.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Mark Shuttleworth
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
Accepted for feisty
Implementation:
Informational Informational
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

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This doesn't need to be proposed for a UDS, we already know the pieces we're waiting for; we just don't have any capability of making them happen faster right now (I'm hiring for someone who could)

For Karmic, this is being discussed at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/karmic-start-up-look-and-feel . --mpt

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