From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MJrnh-0000dl-4u for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:27:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJrnf-0000ct-5m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:27:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJrna-0000bn-Sq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:27:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37887 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJrna-0000bk-NP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:27:42 -0400 Received: from gateway08.websitewelcome.com ([69.56.236.29]:53803) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJrna-00021H-5n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:27:42 -0400 Received: (qmail 1854 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2009 16:33:57 -0000 Received: from gator297.hostgator.com (74.53.228.114) by gateway08.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 25 Jun 2009 16:33:57 -0000 Received: from c-67-185-14-196.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.185.14.196]:49149 helo=svelte.localnet) by gator297.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJrnZ-0007aU-6i; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:27:41 -0500 From: Colin D Bennett To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:27:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090625142555.GB2457@thorin> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906250927.39285.colin@gibibit.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator297.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gibibit.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: Bean Subject: Re: [RFC] New menu design based on MVC 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: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:27:47 -0000 Bean wrote on Thursday 25 June 2009: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:50:55AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > >> > Isn't Colin already working on a redesign of the menu? > >> > >> Yes, but I haven't drastically changed the design of the core menu > >> system > > > > In general, I'm not happy with this kind of drastical changes specially > > at this time. We're supposed to be replacing GRUB Legacy with GRUB 2, > > *that* is the reason we rewrote GRUB almost from scratch. > > > > This gives us plenty of room for newer/fancier stuff. For example GRUB 2 > > is portable, and it's being ported to a number of platforms. But we > > haven't even finished exploiting the current design and we're already > > discussing major changes to the GRUB core. Isn't this something for GRUB > > 3 ? > > > > Distributors want something which does the job and is first and foremost > > stable and robust. > > Hi, > > Actually, the changes are not so dramatic, my main points are: > > Use xml to store data. With Colin's graphic menu path, we are already > introducing a new file format - the theme file. But the current > representation is a little awkward, for example, to write a label, it > uses: > > +vbox{ +label{ text="Hello" } +label{ text="World" } } > > I think it would be more natural to write it like this: > > >