Bugs in GfxMenu

Bugs in GfxMenu

[Matt Sturgeon]

Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:

* No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
* The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
* The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
"content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
*  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
designed to be used as the content-background.

Thanks for the good work.

Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Matt Sturgeon]

Another major bug is that GRUB does not load fonts used by themes automatically.

update-grub or grub-mkconfig should parse the theme configuration file
(usually theme.txt) referanced by /etc/default/grub and load fonts in
the directory (and sub-directories) of the theme file.
Or, better still, fonts could be installed to /usr/share/grub/fonts,
/boot/grub/fonts or /boot/grub/fonts (depending on the directory
choosen by GRUB developers, not theme developers/users) and use that
as a standard directory to store fonts for autoload if called by the
choosen theme during the process of running update-grub or
grub-mkconfig.

Therefore, there is no neccisessity to place scripts into /etc/grub.d/
just to have GRUB include fonts.

On 14 January 2011 00:54, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
> undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:
>
> * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
> *  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
> designed to be used as the content-background.
>
> Thanks for the good work.
>

Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 01/14/2011 02:02 AM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
> Another major bug is that GRUB does not load fonts used by themes automatically.
>
> update-grub or grub-mkconfig should parse the theme configuration file
> (usually theme.txt) referanced by /etc/default/grub and load fonts in
> the directory (and sub-directories) of the theme file.
> Or, better still, fonts could be installed to /usr/share/grub/fonts,
> /boot/grub/fonts or /boot/grub/fonts (depending on the directory
> choosen by GRUB developers, not theme developers/users) and use that
> as a standard directory to store fonts for autoload if called by the
> choosen theme during the process of running update-grub or
> grub-mkconfig.
>
>   
All fonts in theme directory (the directory containing theme.txt file)
are loaded as long as they have pf2 extension.
> Therefore, there is no neccisessity to place scripts into /etc/grub.d/
> just to have GRUB include fonts.
>
> On 14 January 2011 00:54, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
>> undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:
>>
>> * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
>> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
>> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
>> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
>> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
>> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
>> *  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
>> designed to be used as the content-background.
>>
>> Thanks for the good work.
>>
>>     
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>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 01/14/2011 01:54 AM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
> Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
> undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:
>
> * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
>   
Icons have to be placed in $themedir/icons/
> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
>   
Could you attach the illustration of these 2 problems?
> *  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
> designed to be used as the content-background.
>   
terminal background is controlled separately by background_image right
now.  Better integration with themes is scheduled for next release
> Thanks for the good work.
>
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> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>
>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Matt Sturgeon]

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Sorry for long delay


2011/1/16 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>:
> On 01/14/2011 01:54 AM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
>> Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
>> undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:
>>
>> * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
What about "../icons"? Isn't there a "global" icons directory at
"grub/themes/icons"?

>>
> Icons have to be placed in $themedir/icons/
>> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
see underlap--illistration.png

>> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
>> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
>> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
>> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
see _c--illistration.png
>>
> Could you attach the illustration of these 2 problems?
See attached

>> *  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
>> designed to be used as the content-background.
>>
> terminal background is controlled separately by background_image right
> now.  Better integration with themes is scheduled for next release
is there a "background=false" or "background=transparent"?
Could you please make mention of things like background_image in the manual?

>> Thanks for the good work.
>>

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Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Matt Sturgeon]

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Follow up:

On 7 February 2011 21:23, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for long delay
>
>
> 2011/1/16 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>:
>> On 01/14/2011 01:54 AM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
>>> Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
>>> undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:
>>>
>>> * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
> What about "../icons"? Isn't there a "global" icons directory at
> "grub/themes/icons"?
>
>>>
>> Icons have to be placed in $themedir/icons/
>>> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
> see underlap--illistration.png
>
>>> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
>>> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
>>> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
>>> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
> see _c--illistration.png
Sorry: this was a bug with my pixmap sizes. Now that they are correct
terminal_nw.png overlaps terminal_n.png - see attached image

>>>
>> Could you attach the illustration of these 2 problems?
> See attached
>
>>> *  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
>>> designed to be used as the content-background.
>>>
See attached image
>> terminal background is controlled separately by background_image right
>> now.  Better integration with themes is scheduled for next release
> is there a "terminal_background=false" or "terminal_background=transparent"?
> Could you please make mention of things like background_image in the manual?
>
Thanks for the good work.

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Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 07.02.2011 22:23, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
>
> What about "../icons"? Isn't there a "global" icons directory at
> "grub/themes/icons"?
>>
$icondir is. You can set it to whatever value you want.
>>> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
> see underlap--illistration.png
>
Fixed.
>>> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
>>> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
>>> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
>>> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
> see _c--illistration.png
We already do (viewports). Trouble was with adjusting contents to the
viewport.
Terminal is handled separately for performance reasons. I couldn't
recreate any problenm with it overflowing the target area.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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