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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.
I don't think the logo needs to be there at all. I think it reflects badly on the distribution when it fails (see Tux story), when it's seen too often, when it's used as a replacement for the update progress bar, or when it's seen long enough to be remembered.