From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1Br2sp-0001gM-SC for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:03:20 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Br2so-0001gF-LH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:03:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Br2sl-0001eJ-6O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:03:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Br2sk-0001dr-QA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:03:14 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Br2p7-0000XM-Se for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:59:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D01E80A8 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:59:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03560-07 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:59:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCE18A75 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:59:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (a82-92-27-129.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F66C047 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:59:26 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200407312032.27650.okuji@enbug.org> <87k6wkdkhf.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <200408010009.38512.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:59:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200408010009.38512.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:09:38 +0200") Message-ID: <87fz77eqam.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: usability 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, 31 Jul 2004 23:03:19 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > We need to discuss more on internationalization... I will post my idea > about this later. Please do. I know very little about this subject and I think that is true for many people. I am Dutch and for Dutch (and English) ASCII (or anything ASCII like) is enough. So I don't know much about it, when it is used, etc. But don't take me wrong, I find this very important. >> If selecting a menu item is not a noop anymore it can be used already >> to boot. I can implement this, if you want me to. > > I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean here. Ok. You already implemented a very simple menu. But when I choose an option, nothing happens. It is easy to change it so it actually boots the option you have chosen. I know you want to work more on this, but I think it is important to have something that works in an early stage. For the Pc and apple versions we have almost everything that is required. > BTW, if you have any new feature you want in GRUB 2, let me know. I'm > thinking these extensions: I think I told you my opinion in every case and I will continue to do so. > - Labelling entries What is a label used for? > - Tree interface > I'm not sure about this feature. I like it. Currently on my development box I have a boot item called "Network menu" (yeah, stupid name). When I choose that it loads the menu.lst from my tftp server. In that menu.lst some GNU Mach, L4 and toy kernels are listed. > - User-definable shortcuts Nice. >> I can commit Thomas' patch for the chainloader. I could do the other >> two as well, if you don't want to. > > Please. :) Ok. > Not only. Currently, GRUB has no way to resolve dependencies > automatically, so I want to implement this feature. I think Thomas sent in a patch for this, right? Could you please review it? You have more knowledge about module loading. >> What would be useful is extending the TODO if you feel important >> things are missing. GRUB 2 is quite an active project (people >> already know it and are willing to work on it) and chances are high >> people want to work on things you put in the TODO. Especially when >> it is networking related, from what I have noticed people want to >> work on it but don't really know what to do. > > I see. I will do that. But maybe we want to have Wiki? I think Wiki is > very efficient to share some rough ideas, such as a TODO list. What do > you think? This is a very good idea. Can you set up a wiki? Thanks, Marco