From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PJszy-0001mX-8d for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:21:22 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41755 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJszw-0001mM-F0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:21:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJszv-0007i0-8P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:21:20 -0500 Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.142]:36789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJszv-0007hr-45 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:21:19 -0500 Received: from [82.69.3.149] (helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PJszs-0005QK-H1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:21:16 +0000 Message-ID: <4CE81FAB.1060708@zen.co.uk> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:21:15 +0000 From: Barry Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-UK; rv:1.9.2.13pre) Gecko/20101120 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.7pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <20101120145541.GV21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20101120145541.GV21862@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.69.3.149] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Public editable grub2 theming manual X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:21:21 -0000 On 20/11/10 14:55, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:07:59PM -0000, Matt Sturgeon wrote: >> I have decided to fork [1]Colin D. Bennett*s [2]unmaintained manual on >> creating themes for Grub2's gfxmenu module. it is available to view and >> edit via Google Docs [3]here. I highly recommend merging this into the >> Grub2 manual. > > Colin's manual was merged into the GRUB Texinfo documentation some time > ago (under "Theme file format"). Rather than forking it yet again, > could you please send patches against docs/grub.texi for improvements > you feel should be made? > > Thanks, > Could anyone point me to the correct way to implement a theme correctly. The links here go into great detail about creating a theme but I can find nothing about the syntax to use it. Maybe a section could be added to that documentation? Thanks, Barry