Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
This applies to the time after usplash ends (i.e. ubuntu boots up) and
the desktop starts. The overall user experience is not pleasant at all.
1. The rotating disk (the hourglass equivalent) comes up and starts blinking in
two different places on the screen. The screen is black at this point.
** issue: Why does it blink in two different places? Why does it blink at all?
Why is the screen redrawn?
2. We then see a blank orange screen (my gdm background is set to orange) with
the rotation disk in front for a few seconds and the gdm theme gets loaded
** issue: Why is there a need to show the black screen, and then the orange
screen and then the theme? Why not move straight from usplash to the login
screen (gdm themed login)?
3. You can see the theme being drawn from top to bottom in little "squares"
** issue: Why can't the login screen appear all at once? why is it getting
"drawn" in front of the user in segments?
4. Then, after you log in you see the orange background (again) which blinks
two times on my laptop (lenovo x61)
** issue: Again, why not just wait at the login screen and say something like
"Loading please wait..." at the bottom of the login screen? Or instead of
showing the blank orange screen (the color of the set background) show some
text in between like "Loading desktop please wait...."? Why not tell the user
what's happening? Also, why does the screen need to blink?
5. Next you see a desktop thats 80% loaded i.e. some objects are not completely
drawn on the screen yet, so you might see some squiggly lines, or the panel is
half drawn and looks like a fuzzy net etc.
** issue: Why not show a desktop thats drawn 100%? And if it needs to be drawn
in front of the user then at least it can be done more elegantly than lines
being drawn here and there, or half drawn gnome-panels that later get redrawn
to their normal appearance.
I know I sound negative and probably ignorant. This is mostly because I
would not understand how difficult these issues are to fix. I know you
guys put in great efforts to provide us with a solid and stable linux
distro, so these problems might not seem too big. I am just providing
feedback as an end user and his overall visual experience with Ubuntu, I
believe this deserves more importance than it is given today.
Focus always seems to be on new applications and new fancy features but
sometimes it might also be good to polish existing applications rather
than always building something new (and ending up with more bugs in the
process).
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Sub-standard boot up experience with hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213098
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