It was sort of agreed that plymouth shouldn't do anything unless * boot takes longer than ~5 seconds * it needs to prompt for a password * installing updates This probably goes for both startup and shutdown.
also see bug 55286 comment 5
Created attachment 86421 [details] [review] delay initial animiation
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