Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
Dustin Kirkland wrote: >On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Colin Watson >wrote: >> It would have to go on the kernel command line, not in the CD preseed >> file.  The latter is read too late for this. >> >> It would probably be better to add new values for the existing >> FRONTEND_BACKGROUND envi

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > It would have to go on the kernel command line, not in the CD preseed > file.  The latter is read too late for this. > > It would probably be better to add new values for the existing > FRONTEND_BACKGROUND environment variable (which can also

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, March 27, 2011 03:28:42 pm Allison Randal wrote: > On 03/27/2011 06:30 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Where is this discussion documented? > > > > This change affected multiple applications in a wide variety of contexts. > > What is the 'individual application' that was affected? > > A

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-27 Thread Allison Randal
On 03/27/2011 06:30 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Where is this discussion documented? This change affected multiple applications in a wide variety of contexts. What is the 'individual application' that was affected? Agreed that this change wasn't handled as transparently as it could have been,

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, March 27, 2011 10:34:23 am Allison Randal wrote: > On 03/26/2011 07:11 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: > > Please let me know if I missed the conversation elsewhere, or if the > > feature was properly handled with a FFE, and I just missed that part. > > Appropriate checks were made with appropr

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-27 Thread Allison Randal
On 03/26/2011 07:11 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: Please let me know if I missed the conversation elsewhere, or if the feature was properly handled with a FFE, and I just missed that part. Appropriate checks were made with appropriate people (including Release Team members) before the change was re

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-26 Thread Rick Spencer
I like this feature, but I have a few questions about it. 1. I presume this is the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kbd/+bug/730672 But there doesn't seem to be an FFE for it, but perhaps I am confused about when and how the feature landed. The bug mentions UI freeze, but not featur

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:54:59PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: > What about making that change preseedable ? > > This way ubuntu-alternate and ubuntu-server can ship with the new > palette set in the .seed files included on the CD and everyone else will > get the old VGA colors. It would have t

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-19 Thread Stéphane Graber
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 00:45 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:08:16 am Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Dropped server from cc, since it's no OT there. > > > > On Friday, March 18, 2011 11:55:35 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scott Kitterman

Re: Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:08:16 am Scott Kitterman wrote: > Dropped server from cc, since it's no OT there. > > On Friday, March 18, 2011 11:55:35 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scott Kitterman > > wrote: > > > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:01:51 pm Dustin K

Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

2011-03-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Dropped server from cc, since it's no OT there. On Friday, March 18, 2011 11:55:35 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:01:51 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote: ... > >> Spiffy, huh? Thanks to everyone who help spread some