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 wanted to check if something similar can be done with GRUB, and found out about the gfxmenu that was merged in 0.98. I think it is a great step forward, and would be a really nice addition to all major distributions in near future. However, I think that the graphical menu is somewhat incomplete without mouse support. So I wish to work on implementing mouse support for GRUB. However, I am a novice to the GRUB codebase, and need some help with understanding the relevant parts and with testing my implementation. I myself have done a little bit of reading, reading the source code for the term module which implements the keyboard support into GRUB, and have more or less understood it. Also, I read up the HID specifications document for USB devices. It would be really wonderful if someone with experience with the relevant code can help me by guiding me when needed, and help me with a few of the problems i am facing with testing my build of GRUB with qemu. -- Regards Tirtha Chatterjee KDE developer http://wyuka.co.cc/ _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
