I think Plasma would benefit by disabling the Splash Screen by default. The Splash Screen is rather dated and doesn't really accomplish much these days other than make the booting process take longer. I disable the Splash Screen on my own system immediately upon install because that way it lets me get to my desktop much faster on boot. Yes, things are still loading as I start to use the system but that is a normal expectation by users so there's no real issue there in my opinion.
The Splash Screen effect just makes the user wait longer to use their system. In my testing, the Splash Screen effect makes the boot process take an additional 10 seconds - 30 seconds, depending on the hardware, for no apparent benefit that I see.
I'd also like to clarify that i am not talking about plymouth splash screen but rather the KDE specific additional splash screen available to disable at System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Splash Screen
This may be tied to plymouth now in later versions of Plasma but I am not sure.
Metadata Update from @ngompa: - Issue tagged with: experience
I've worked on this in the past. I even suggested dropping the splash screen at some point but our conclusion was that it helped provide a smoother startup experience as it is.
I then would suggest bringing the discussion upstream once more, I don't think it's something specific to Fedora.
If there's any part of the startup that could be improved, let's see if we can do it too.
I think we want to go another direction and actually use the splash as an opportunity to provide some combination Fedora+KDE branding. This discussion is tracked in #31.
Metadata Update from @ngompa: - Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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