On 01.10.2011 19:12, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 1 October 2011 15:39, Tirtha Chatterjee > <tirtha.p.chatter...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi GRUB devels, >> >> recently I came across the improvements made by Microsoft Windows 8 in >> their bootloader. >> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/20/reengineering-the-windows-boot-experience.aspx >> >> However I despise the operating system itself ( :-P ), the idea of a >> beautiful graphical bootloader with mouse support integrated into it >> felt amazing to me. It lowered the barrier for the user, and gave the >> user an at-home experience right from switching on the computer. I > I don't think the user needs to feel exceptionally home at the > bootloader so long as the bootloader does its job well - boots the > system asap. > I agree. Also using keyboard is much faster and precise in this case and doesn't need any additional knowledge. So entry barrier talk is a nonsense. However in the domain of "fancy" people have strange preference and I decided long time ago to allow such features as long as it's well coded and disabled by default. > If you really want to lower the barrier then it would be good to have > touchscreen support on devices that have one. With a touchscreen the > user could select from the menu with much more ease than with a mouse. > This however needs the touch sensor come aligned with the screen or > some calibration needs to be done to figure out what part of the touch > sensor corresponds to which part of the screen. > I agree with this as well. Additionally some device can work in tablet mode. Actually I tried to order touchbook because of exactly this reason but never got one. > Also if you want the user feel at home so much they don't need to > touch the keyboard how do you tackle the question much more > challenging than how to select from a graphical menu - what to select > from there, or what to load from the disk in case the menu is not > preconfigured. > > Thanks > > Michal > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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