Bug 1392836 - Use the "spinner" theme by default
Summary: Use the "spinner" theme by default
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: plymouth
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-08 10:56 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2019-02-13 19:57 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-02-13 19:57:33 UTC
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plymouth-change-default.patch (3.32 KB, patch)
2016-11-08 12:17 UTC, Bastien Nocera
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Description Bastien Nocera 2016-11-08 10:56:37 UTC
This is the upstream GNOME designed spinner:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Boot

It does not contain branding, which was agreed to be ineffective for advertising Fedora in a recent fedora-desktop@ thread.

Look for "Monday, 7 November" in:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/35ASBMRYVBO6PZLXE2I44WD4JTYK6VFT/

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2016-11-08 12:17:24 UTC
Created attachment 1218504 [details]
plymouth-change-default.patch

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2016-11-08 14:25:20 UTC
(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #0)
> It does not contain branding, which was agreed to be ineffective for
> advertising Fedora in a recent fedora-desktop@ thread.
> 
> Look for "Monday, 7 November" in:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.
> org/thread/35ASBMRYVBO6PZLXE2I44WD4JTYK6VFT/

This is misrepresentative cherry-picking from that unfinished discussion. Please don't implement this change without a greater plan.

Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2016-11-08 16:10:08 UTC
(In reply to Matthew Miller from comment #2)
> This is misrepresentative cherry-picking from that unfinished discussion.
> Please don't implement this change without a greater plan.

Let's call it a "miscommunication"... certainly we do not have consensus on this yet, except that it seems nobody very much likes the current bootsplash.

I kinda think we should switch to the upstream theme in rawhide and just wait and see if a better Fedora theme comes along before F26. The disadvantage of that is if a better theme comes around in F27, then we look unprofessional for changing the bootsplash from one release to the next, but that doesn't seem like the most likely scenario.

I don't think it's particularly important whether we use the upstream bootsplash or a Fedora-branded one, as long as it looks good. I do suggest that any Fedora theme try to work with the gray noise background, though. The upstream designs call for that background from the GRUB theme all the way to the login screen, and I suspect we can work a Fedora logo into it without disrupting that.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:34:47 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

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Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2018-05-03 15:32:57 UTC
See also: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/53

Comment 7 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 10:21:32 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 8 Hans de Goede 2019-02-13 19:57:33 UTC
As part of:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlickerFreeBoot

A new plymouth theme, based on the spinner theme, see:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/BootProgress

Has landed and been made the default in rawhide/F30, starting with plymouth-0.9.4-3.fc30, so this bug can be closed.


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