Re: [PATCH] 5/5 Graphical menu (gfxmenu)

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

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...