From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KKKjL-00028B-Gp for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:16:43 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKKjJ-000286-UE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:16:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKKjF-00027u-Ex for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:16:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52067 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKKjF-00027r-CV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:16:37 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:59689) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKKjF-0005YU-5C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:16:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KKKde-0000Zu-RH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:10:51 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KKKiQ-00042O-Hk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:15:46 +0200 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:15:46 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080719221546.GA15262@thorin> References: <20080717212227.GA11725@pina.cat> <20080719154043.GG23778@thorin> <20080719103446.047a33e6@gibibit.com> <20080719220640.GA4419@pina.cat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080719220640.GA4419@pina.cat> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: menu loop (patch) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:16:42 -0000 On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:06:40AM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > This would be no problem at all; it's essentially identical to how the > > text mode menu from normal.mod works. It could go either way, and > > certainly would be easy to make it a setting in the theme file (or more > > likely in a user-configurable place such as grub.cfg (?) -- since we > > might not expect most users to modify theme files but only choose which > > one to use). > > > > Actually my graphical menu currently *does* wrap around, I guess it > > I'm new in this list and in Grub2 (I hvae not used, actually). Are you > saying that there is some graphical menu that does wrap? Well, yes, but it's in a development branch (part of GSoC). > > seemed logical to me at the time I wrote the code! 8-) As you can > > tell, I am not firmly set on either wrapping or not wrapping. > > my workmate wanted it, i wanted and I've spoke with my brother and he > really wanted. But maybe it's because brother-love :-) (this is not > proving anything, of course) Okuji doesn't seem to like it (see his other mail). If you want to provide some convincing arguments, I'd suggest finding a strong reference from usability experts backing up your proposal. The rest of us don't seem to care much either way (at least I don't). -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)