Re: Outline menu

[Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>]

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* Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote, On 06/11/07 21:37:
> Amin Azez wrote:
>   
>>
>> At the same time, can we consider supporting specification of
>> alternative short menu texts, suitable for display on 16 character LCD
>> screens.
>>
>> I'll be doing some work on grub-legacy to support boot menu's on such
>> serial-port based displays as soon as I get a firmware update from one
>> manufacturer.
>>
>> I hope grub 2 can consider this early on.
>>     
>
> It will be more modular than old grub legacy hacks. But I fear you need
> to hack this yourself :). Basicly current idea is that you just
> re-implement viewer/controller module for the menu.
>
> But using both serial (text terminal) and graphical menu could be an
> issue that could be solved... could be nice feature for servers as a
> backup control.
>   

I will hack it support of the display myself, but I want the config file
to recognize that some displays are small and support provision of an
alternate small-title.

I want this to be a property of a menu entry, specifiable in the config
file, representable in the menu item structs, etc. That much is beyond
my scope as it affects grub2 as a whole.

Perhaps it would be simpler to just suggest something as simple as tab
character would delimit the short text from the full text, rather than
make the changes I suggested. It would be a hack and less intrusive, but
I would rather grub2 had the capability to deal with constrained displays.

Sam


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