My suggestion would be to leave Grub as is. The enhancement is purely for appearance. Most of the users are used to seeing their menu choices and can adapt easily. The usefulness comes in if you are constantly rebooting with a variety of OSes. Grub is definitely a giant leap forward from Lilo. I am pretty happy with the way it is.
Hari From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Klaus Reichl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Small suggestion: separators in menu Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:18:27 +0900 At Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:54:53 +0200 (MEST), Klaus Reichl wrote: > separator --solid # drawing a line like top and bottom > separator "Some Text" # show "Some Text" like in title but > # make it non-selectable I'm not very concerned about the syntax. Rather, about the user interface. For example, suppose this: TITLE1 <- this is the selected line SEPARATOR1 TITLE2 SEPARATOR2 TITLE3 If the user pushes the down key, which line should the selected line move to? "TITLE2" or "SEPARATOR1"? If any separators should be skipped, it is possible that some lines can never be shown. For example, suppose that the maximum number of lines is 4 and your menu contains: TITLE1 SEPARATOR1 SEPARATOR2 SEPARATOR3 SEPARATOR4 SEPARATOR5 SEPARATOR6 SEPARATOR7 TITLE2 Then you cannot see SEPARATOR4, never. If you want to see SEPARATOR4, one solution would be that the cursor moves line by line but you cannot "run" any separator (e.g. by the key `b'). Another issue is whether GRUB should count separators as entries. For example, in this menu: TITLE1 SEPARATOR1 TITLE2 should TITLE2 be assigned to 1 or 2? Anyway, the biggest issue is whether the cost-performance is good or not. Clearly, adding this feature would make the implementation of GRUB more complicated and possibly more buggy. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub