Opened 16 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#3115 assigned enhancement
Improve Boot screen visuals
Reported by: | humdinger | Owned by: | nobody |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
Component: | System/Kernel | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Platform: | All |
Description
As mentioned on the mailing list (http://www.freelists.org/archives/haiku-development/11-2008/msg00138.html):
Me: How about changing the meaning of the icons in a fashion that would allow every icon about equal time on your average hardware to light up?
Ingo: If someone wants do that, sure. There just might not be something like the "average hardware". E.g. on my T61 the USB stuff seems to contribute significantly to the boot time (maybe because the BIOS doesn't want to let go of it?), on another box it might be some other piece of "average hardware".
But really, just plaster the kernel's main2() with time measurements and test on a lot of different hardware. Maybe a better distribution of the stages presents itself. We could even add more stages for the boot script (at least up to the point when the app server is started), if necessary.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
Milestone: | R1 → Unscheduled |
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comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Summary: | Improve Bootloader visuals → Improve Boot screen visuals |
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comment:4 by , 8 years ago
Component: | System/Boot Loader → System/Kernel |
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The timing of the icons is part of the kernel boot process, it is not related to the boot loader (which only shows the empty icons).
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
Owner: | changed from | to
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Status: | new → assigned |
I personally don't find the visual designation of boot stages useful unless there's a specific stage that might hang or fail, where the visual indication could be used to identify the next step of troubleshooting.
Thus, if an icon represents a boot stage that is highly unlikely to fail, or vary in length, it's pretty much useless to me.