On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 13:18 -0500, Eric Griffith wrote:
On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:12, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 11:40 -0500, Eric Griffith wrote:
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?
We don't, we opt for console mode for grub. This is because last time we tried using the graphical mode by default, we had too many bugs with it; IIRC, a few systems where grub wasn't visible at all, and quite a lot where it was very, very slow.
Wouldn't that situation have likely changed since UEFI and the emphasis on graphics even very early at boot?
Possibly. It's worth trying again. There are still many non-UEFI systems out there, though, and people who do BIOS installs to UEFI systems because they think UEFI is the devil's work (or just can't be bothered with it).