Re: gfxmenu status? [was: Serial and graphical console at the same time]

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:50:15 +0100
Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:

> On 18 February 2010 01:48, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:37:16PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote:
> >> Christian Auby writes:
> >>> How would I go about setting up grub2 with both serial console and
> >>> graphical console?
> >>
> >> You can't run simultaneous consoles with a stock grub2 build.
> >> The experimental branch does support it though:
> >> http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/multiple-grub-terminals/#comment-520
> >
> > The relevant code was merged into trunk on 2010-01-09.
> >
> 
> How does the gfxmenu work in this case?
> 
> And how does it work in the simpler cases, anyway?
> 
> Is there some documentation or at least samples?
> 
> Everywhere it's said the menu is MVC based. I am not expert on MVC but
> I don't see anything remotely reminiscent of MV separation, the wiki
> pages describe just a UI toolkit without most of the MVC parts.

I think that only the menu/menuitems are the model, but there are two
views on the menu model: (1) the text-mode menu and (2) the graphical
menu.  The GUI component model is fairly limited at this point but
there's no reason it couldn't be expanded to a wider variety of widgets
that might support MVC (for instance a text area that uses a model
separate from its view).

Regards,
Colin