On 15.03.2013 18:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:52:08PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>> В Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:52:13 +0400
>> Vladimir Testov <vladimir.testov@rosalab.ru> пишет:
>>
>>> In current state, start angle is measured in "parrots", where 1 "parrot" = 1 / 
>>> 256 of full circle.
>>>
>>> With simple patch we can set start angle in degrees (which makes no difference 
>>> for the program, but makes configuration to be more user-friendly)
>>>
>>
>> This has compatibility issue and probably cannot be done without
>> introducing theme file format version.
>>
>> What about adding new parameter name instead (although start_angle_angle
>> looks rather silly)?
> 
> start_angle_degrees?
> 
> Could have start_angle_radians too (although it would need floating
> point to be useful).

GRUB doesn't use floats at all as it would decrease compatibility and
brings nothing useful to us.

> 
> Could even have start_angle_gradians
> 

This would be featuritus