SplashDown

Revision 8 as of 2005-11-05 22:14:29

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Summary

Showing a splash screen and progress indicator while shutting down (turn off, restart, and hibernate)

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

  • When the progress bar as finally finished some wording/picture indicating to switch off the power should be displayed in case the 'poweroff' fails on the machine and it is left to sit there indefinately.
  • If X is not killed, just swtiched away, then there is like flash during the transition to framebuffer.

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion