On Nov 8, 2016, at 11:12, Michael Catanzaro
<mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
> 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?