Comment 3 for bug 553386

This is also true of the Ubuntu default theme; thus, I am marking this as affecting "plymouth" (the source package for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo).

When we had usplash, booting was indicated by a progress bar filling from left to right, and shutting down was indicated by emptying from left to right; indeterminate state was indicated by "bouncing".

What we have now, on both startup and shutdown, looks like a progress bar going from 0% to 100% and back again.

In the following forum post, I've illustrated a change we could make to the dot pattern --essentially, the progress bar should bounce or scroll, not fill and empty:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9018679&postcount=479