Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 17:05 -0400, David Zeuthen a écrit :
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 22:44 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The only recurrent complaint about our bootloader is people who don't
> care about it are forced to pay attention due to our current use of
> flashy vga-16 background.
>
> This can be solved by bios-like black & white plain text camouflage.
>
> What additionnal purpose removing the grub text altogether or killing
> the grub timeout window serves, appart from making various user
> categories miserable? (We've already established some posters do not
> care about them overmuch. That's not a valid technical argument)
We're discussing defaults here. One camp wants to get rid of eye-sore
known as the boot loader screen
which you can do just by un-theming it
because many end users don't or can't use it [1].
That's your personal interpretation
The same people don't or can't use BIOS output, and they don't reject
it.
Anyway, for the server spin you'd default to
showing the bootloader screen;
server people have many tools & infrastructure and wouldn't care a lot
about a stupid default. They'd just kickstart the right one.
for the desktop (or dare I say "Fedora
for Human Beings" spin? [2]) spin you wouldn't show it.
Desktop folks need it to access their windows game partition and legacy
un-backuped data
[1] : and to some people, it makes a ton more sense to configure
boot
options via a dedicated UI (e.g. s-c-bootloader) in the desktop session
because that's accessible (in the a11y sense), translatable, support
complex scripts / glyphs and reachable via VNC.
For most people having to configure anything in a dedicated UI is way
worse than a system that just takes care of itself like grub does
--
Nicolas Mailhot