Re: Bugs in GfxMenu

[Matt Sturgeon]

Another major bug is that GRUB does not load fonts used by themes automatically.

update-grub or grub-mkconfig should parse the theme configuration file
(usually theme.txt) referanced by /etc/default/grub and load fonts in
the directory (and sub-directories) of the theme file.
Or, better still, fonts could be installed to /usr/share/grub/fonts,
/boot/grub/fonts or /boot/grub/fonts (depending on the directory
choosen by GRUB developers, not theme developers/users) and use that
as a standard directory to store fonts for autoload if called by the
choosen theme during the process of running update-grub or
grub-mkconfig.

Therefore, there is no neccisessity to place scripts into /etc/grub.d/
just to have GRUB include fonts.

On 14 January 2011 00:54, Matt Sturgeon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, as demonstrated by the attatched screenshots, the following key
> undesireble behaviour is beeing displayed by gfxmenu in GRUB 1.99:
>
> * No icons are beeing printed for Ubuntu (probobly all Operating Systems)
> * The selected pixmap is beeing drawn at a larger scale than the Boot Menu.
> * The boxes with pixmaps (Selected, Boot Menu and Terminal) should
> draw all content within the '_c.png' pixmap, as this is the center or
> "content" area or the pixmap - this is mainly noticed in the terminal,
> as the contend is printed OVER the north ('_n.png') pixmap.
> *  The Terminal prints a black background, even though the '_c.png' is
> designed to be used as the content-background.
>
> Thanks for the good work.
>