Colin D Bennett wrote: > This long-awaited patch adds graphical menu support to GRUB 2. It is > largely the result of my work during the Google Summer of Code 2008. > > The graphical menu system supports image-based themes, of which I have > created several sample themes[1]. > > There are still a few important things that need to be done on gfxmenu > before it is completely ready for end-users (off the top of my head): > > - Need a good way to switch themes at runtime. I want to add a popup > menu that lists the available themes and lets the user choose one. > (Currently the keys 1, 2, 3, and 4 are hardcoded to switch between my > sample themes...)
Switching themes on runtime is not a priority. It is a nice to have feature thou... but we can wait a bit with that. > - gfxmenu interacts badly with gfxterm. Running commands from the > terminal withing gfxmenu that switch the video mode > ('videotest basic', for instance) cause a crash when the command > returns. I think this has something to do with the interaction of > video mode-switching and the GRUB output terminal. I think we can live with some oddities so I would propose that we get some version in. In fact it will make fixing bugs a bit more robust as others can also contribute... So whats the status of your actions. I think some of the patches were already approved with some minor changes... _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel