Re: pretty colors in gfxterm

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007 18:49, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > You could implement a color command, which does the same as the color
> > > command in GRUB Legacy.  All terminals have support for the color
> > > command.  Although I am not really sure if it is completely compatible
> > > with what you are used to.
> >
> > Can you give some pointer to that?
> 
> Basically, you only need to call setcolor on a terminal. It should just work 
> fine.
> 
> > > Although, it would be better to implement what Okuji proposed a while
> > > ago.  Are you willing to work on this?  It might be fun to do so :-).
> >
> > Willing yes, capable not.  Lacking time and skill.  Skill can still
> > improve, but time.... :-/
> 
> I don't have much time, either, but I will refactor the menu code sooner or 
> later. Once this is done, it wouldn't be too difficult to implement new 
> intefaces for the menu.

Other (perhaps easier) options that would also improve the situation are
"hiddenmenu" and splash image support.

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