Comment 1 for bug 808735

Lets Double Post, my idea is :

What about using the plymouth-greeter option ?

Only thing left to do would be to let it working also on booting, because on shutdown it works fine.

then just use it with a nice theme :

Why not use a Wallpaper instead of leting plymouth drawing this damn things ?

This wallpaper looks nice I think

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64622282@N08/5887632472/

And because of "oneiric", what about letting the ocelot dreaming a little bit?

A Symbol for dreaming are sky, clouds, stars and so on

Now, what about using the Xsplash from Karmic : the one from Xubuntu 9.10 with this kind of lights flying around in the middle of the screen ?

Using many .png s, this might look good :)