Support additional separate places for messages

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Currently the message command only replaces the one message in the middle of the screen. There are many situations where I'd want to have two messages on screen, or a single message in a different place. Use case is for displaying key presses that mountall has asked plymouth to watch for, e.g.

    Errors were found while checking /home

    [F]ix them, [I]gnore errors, [S]kip mountpoint, [A]bort

and

    Checking /home filesystem
    [#### ]

    [C]ancel check

(the top message in that one comese from the theme, obviously)

The obvious way to do this would be to prefix the message with something like "keys:" ? Setting the ordinary message should not clear the keys line, and setting the keys line should not clear the ordinary message.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

from our discussion on IRC: 'to clear both, I'd have to send message "" and message "keys:" '

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package plymouth - 0.8.0~-11

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plymouth (0.8.0~-11) lucid; urgency=low

  * ubuntu_logo theme:
    - New logo, colours and simplified design in compliance with the
      artwork and with the guidelines provided by Otto Greenslade.
  * Add support for additional separate places for messages (LP: #497311).
 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:27:26 +0100