Bug 148100

Summary:	tty1 is stamp-sized (because of new boot splash)
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Christian Boltz <suse-beta>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, asklein, dkukawka, dmueller, vetter
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Christian Boltz 2006-02-03 19:58:14 UTC

I just installed beta3 with its new boot splash. Really looks nice, but it has a regression compared to the 10.0 design: the usable viewport is defined much smaller :-(

Please extend the viewport to the full screen width as it was in 10.0.
The current usable area is a waste of display space.

Comment 1 Andreas Kleen 2006-02-04 13:51:27 UTC

I see this too. It looks quite bad. Please fix.

Comment 2 Michael Schröder 2006-02-06 12:50:33 UTC

Reassigned to Anna.

Comment 3 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-02-17 22:00:20 UTC

i am collecting statistics.
On a 1024x768 display, the current layout does waste 32% of the screen
(128x48 native against 93x45).
I will collect info on bigger resolutions (where it is even worse!) next week.

Comment 4 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-02-17 22:06:59 UTC

on a 1600x1200 screen it is 200x75 against 105x70 which means 51% are wasted :-(

Comment 5 Christian Boltz 2006-02-17 23:10:34 UTC

*** Bug 151767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Anna Dirks 2006-02-22 18:59:38 UTC

Hmm, weird. My team is looking into it. Thanks for reporting.

Comment 7 Stephan Binner 2006-03-01 14:07:54 UTC

*** Bug 154325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Jakub Steiner 2006-03-20 18:30:24 UTC

The trouble here is that the same viewport is used for the bootup messages and the virtual console. The need for horizontal space is very different for these two uses - for bootup you do not want to have too long lines as it makes it hard to identify which service has failed or started sucessfully. For a regular console, you want as much space as possible.

I would suggest bootsplash really was only used for bootup messages and the first virtual console was untheme just like the others.

Comment 9 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-21 07:51:12 UTC

We always had a themed first virtual console and this is important.  The user by default does not see the boot lines - and I think the short lines are more confusing than the longer bootlines.  At least for SUSE Linux I like to see:
* A themed first console
* Long lines

Comment 10 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-29 12:50:06 UTC

Jimmac, could you make the change - at least for SUSE Linux, please?

Comment 11 Jakub Steiner 2006-03-29 16:55:33 UTC

The new splashes (done after beta8, see bug #65448) should use much more space - only a few pixels chopped off on the sides. Are you positive that https://svn.innerweb.novell.com/svn/pdes/branches/SUSE10.1/boot/theme/SuSE/ still needs bigger text area?

Comment 12 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-30 09:25:55 UTC

I hadn't seen that.

NO, this looks fine for Beta9, let's close it.

Comment 13 Christian Boltz 2006-04-02 17:53:51 UTC

viewport is OK again in beta9 :-)

Thanks!