From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MaTT9-0003Nw-93 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:15 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaTT6-0003N1-Dj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaTT1-0003Mp-Kd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41534 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaTT1-0003Mm-F0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:07 -0400 Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:56382) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaTT1-0000co-2V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:07 -0400 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MaTT0-0004OC-9E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:55:06 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) for grub-devel@gnu.org id 1MaTSz-0002ml-00; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:55:05 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:55:05 +0100 From: Colin Watson To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090810115505.GT11691@riva.ucam.org> References: <20090810103811.GO11691@riva.ucam.org> <20090810114450.GH9344@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090810114450.GH9344@thorin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Integrate hiddenmenu 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: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:55:13 -0000 On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:44:50PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'd like to integrate http://grub.enbug.org/Hiddenmenu as a > > grub-mkconfig option so that we can use it by default in Ubuntu. How > > does the attached patch look? I dropped the --verbose from the wiki page > > since I personally prefer it to be silent, although obviously this could > > be patched in or out as desired. I also moved the timeout down to after > > the point when the graphical terminal is initialised, to decrease the > > period when GRUB isn't in the desired screen resolution. > > GRUB Legacy users would expect the verbose behaviour. I tend to prefer > making that the default. Does anyone else prefer silent? This also comes from our design people, who have told me that by default the boot loader "should not have any visible representation". That obviously doesn't necessarily mean it has to be the upstream default though! :-) > If we default to verbose, we could also have an option to turn it off from > /etc/default/grub, if that makes life easier for you. Slightly, I suppose. I thought there were some feelings against excessive numbers of options which is why I didn't suggest that. GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=1? -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]