Re: I asked Hacker News what developers want from a desktop, and this is what they said

On Nov 8, 2016, at 11:12, Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro@gnome.org wrote:

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On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 22:51 +0000, Micah Denn wrote: I don't know that much about plymouth and its fantastically poorly documented. I'm almost certain that it can't play that many large frames at a watchable frame rate. Although if we simplified it a bit I think most of the animation could be implemented in code, which would be much better in terms of performance.

Would the animation still look good if we did it over the gray noise background that we currently use for the login screen? The upstream designs call for that background to be used from the GRUB theme all the way to the login screen.

Then why do we opt for a generic black background for grub?