[OLPC-devel] I tested the new graphical interface in buildrom

[Ronald G Minnich]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 22:30 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
>>I think we have to have a scrolling message area.There are fprintf 
>>things in the bootmenu code -- but where will they show up? is it too 
>>hard to put something like that in?
> 
> 
> Seriously, why?  What's wrong with the OS X style approach where you've
> got a spinning "progress wheel"?  If you _really_ want to, you can hold
> down Cmd+Option+V and get a "verbose" mode that shows all the kernel
> messages.  But by default, you get the pretty pictures.  I don't see why
> we need kernel messages _and_ pretty pictures at the same time, at least
> in the final image.  Maybe for development though.

well we'll leave it at pretty pictures then.

I've never liked progress bars, etc. But many people do.

ron