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Re: [PATCH] Integrate hiddenmenu


From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Integrate hiddenmenu
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:21:47 +0200

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> I'd like to integrate http://grub.enbug.org/Hiddenmenu as a
>> grub-mkconfig option so that we can use it by default in Ubuntu. How
>> does the attached patch look? I dropped the --verbose from the wiki page
>> since I personally prefer it to be silent, although obviously this could
>> be patched in or out as desired. I also moved the timeout down to after
>> the point when the graphical terminal is initialised, to decrease the
>> period when GRUB isn't in the desired screen resolution.
>
> GRUB Legacy users would expect the verbose behaviour.  I tend to prefer
> making that the default.  Does anyone else prefer silent?
A timeout with a black screen gives a very bad impression. For a
distro it can be ok since you'll probably provide a nice splash image
but since upstream provides none I prefer it to be verbose by default
>
> If we default to verbose, we could also have an option to turn it off from
> /etc/default/grub, if that makes life easier for you.
>
> Other than this, the patch itself looks fine.
>
> --
> Robert Millan
>
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko

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