From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E4iYT-00030j-8C for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:15:21 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4iYQ-0002xi-18 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:15:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4iYL-0002vB-If for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:15:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4iYL-0002sI-Cs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:15:13 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4ig1-0007m6-LQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:23:09 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291528924 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15186-03 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65F9868A for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6F6C048 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <42FF3097.7030904@nic.fi> <42FF6709.40300@nic.fi> <42FF75B0.8060805@gmail.com> <200508142125.56935.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:07:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200508142125.56935.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:25:56 +0200") Message-ID: <874q9ryvqs.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: vesafb terminal for testing. 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: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:15:19 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > On Sunday 14 August 2005 18:47, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: >> But we need to let the room for the future growth. One of far-looking >> plans is >> "eye-candy" menu interface and we don't know yet what we will put there. > > Good point. Just to give you some ideas, I attach an imaginary screenshot of a > fancy menu interface. Please don't mind my poor sense of art. I can think of > these effects: It looks really nice. > - 3D background under each entry > > - Animation, such as a moving rainbow on a selected title > > - Fading background as the timeout count decreases. Perhaps we can get help and suggestions from designers instead of programmers. Perhaps we can contact Ubuntu, they have designers. Perhaps a KDE or gnome team? -- Marco