spinner theme needs a fallback oem graphic, if there is none
Bug #1870520 reported by
Dimitri John Ledkov
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plymouth (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
| qemu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
| seabios (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
the new default ubuntu boot theme, shows OEM vendor logo during boot, and it looks very slick on UEFI / brand-name laptops. There is large dell/lenovo/etc logos, spinner, ubuntu logo.
However, under some boots, there is no vendor logo available (either buggy firmware, buggy firmware settings, or BIOS boot with no logo available, ie. VM).
In that case we possibly want to have a fallback graphics in plymouth. Something monochome and big (needs a new asset) i.e. just the canonical circle.
Incidentally, can we fix our SeaBIOS VM firmware to expose a logo in BIOS boot that plymouth can use and show here? Something like SeaBIOS? I.e. under UEFI boot, there is a large Tianocore logo.
Revision history for this message
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
| Changed in qemu (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in seabios (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: focal |
| Changed in qemu (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in seabios (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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I think a default graphic would be worse than none. On real machines like ThinkPads with legacy BIOS enabled you see a big Lenovo logo followed by blackness, so that's also this bug. But I think that's the lesser evil compared to the Lenovo logo changing to something else that will confuse the user. Also on such real hardware the user can avoid the whole problem (if it bothers them) by disabling legacy BIOS modes.
But I agree it would be nice to fix this for VMs, in SeaBIOS or wherever.