From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll7Zj-0005Ea-5j for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:47 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll7Zh-0005EV-Ns for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll7Zd-0005EC-6a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47422 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll7Zd-0005E9-3d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:41 -0400 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:48266 helo=kirsi1.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ll7Zc-0002au-LU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:13:41 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (84.248.105.254) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 49B910AD005B20B1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: <49C54A6F.1020503@nic.fi> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:13:35 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20090131125939.0a5c3bce@gibibit.com> In-Reply-To: <20090131125939.0a5c3bce@gibibit.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] 5/5 Graphical menu (gfxmenu) 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, 21 Mar 2009 20:13:45 -0000 Colin D Bennett wrote: > This long-awaited patch adds graphical menu support to GRUB 2. It is > largely the result of my work during the Google Summer of Code 2008. > > The graphical menu system supports image-based themes, of which I have > created several sample themes[1]. > > There are still a few important things that need to be done on gfxmenu > before it is completely ready for end-users (off the top of my head): > > - Need a good way to switch themes at runtime. I want to add a popup > menu that lists the available themes and lets the user choose one. > (Currently the keys 1, 2, 3, and 4 are hardcoded to switch between my > sample themes...) Switching themes on runtime is not a priority. It is a nice to have feature thou... but we can wait a bit with that. > - gfxmenu interacts badly with gfxterm. Running commands from the > terminal withing gfxmenu that switch the video mode > ('videotest basic', for instance) cause a crash when the command > returns. I think this has something to do with the interaction of > video mode-switching and the GRUB output terminal. I think we can live with some oddities so I would propose that we get some version in. In fact it will make fixing bugs a bit more robust as others can also contribute... So whats the status of your actions. I think some of the patches were already approved with some minor changes...