It was added to improve the interaction with systemd-boot, which cannot be themed, so there was not a sudden transition from unthemed to themed areas. However, keeping Plymouth unthemed only moves this transition later into the boot process.
A nicer solution can be achieved by setting boot.loader.timeout = 0, which effectively makes systemd-boot invisible unless a key is held down. This is not something we should include in Stylix, since it changes behaviour, but we can recommend it to users who want it.
This goes against the chosen color scheme.
It was added to improve the interaction with
systemd-boot, which cannot be themed, so there was not a sudden transition from unthemed to themed areas. However, keeping Plymouth unthemed only moves this transition later into the boot process.A nicer solution can be achieved by setting
boot.loader.timeout = 0, which effectively makessystemd-bootinvisible unless a key is held down. This is not something we should include in Stylix, since it changes behaviour, but we can recommend it to users who want it.