[Design-team] Fedora GRUB2 boot menu, from design perspective

[Elad Alfassa]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Isn’t this a bit ot? This is the design team, which is meant for design of
> Fedora (not the OS itself, but the theme, artwork, etc). I’m not over the
> team, or a mod, but I think this is ot, and is kind of strange seeing this
> in a design team... Thanks!
We design the OS, that includes artwork and UX.
>
>
> From: Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:52:46 PM
> To: design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] Fedora GRUB2 boot menu, from design perspective
>
> Hi Elad,
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:07:59 +0300
> Elad Alfassa wrote:
>
> > refer to this thread in -devel:
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/168712.html
> >
> > As I understand, by design, we wanted the older kernels to appear in
> > the "Advanced options" menu, but right now, it breaks every time you
> > run a kernel update.
> > Also, the string Fedora Linux is kinda wrong, cause the OS is called
> > Fedora.
> > It should be something like Fedora (with Linux *kernel version here*).
> >
> > What is the stand of the design team on this?
> >
>
> first of all, I do *not* speak for the design team, just stating my
> opinion.
>
> The intended design is probably best what we can have but,
>  * Given the fedora target audience, it's not uncommon to have multiple
>   fedoras installed, so it would be good if the items looked like
>   Fedora $REL_VER$ $REL_NAME$ (or without the release name).
Agreed.
>  * All kernels should be in subdirectory. That the current kernel
>   updates break the intended setup (as set-up in /etc) is obviously
>   incorrect and should be fixed. Both ways (submenus or direct menu)
>   are better than current state of things.
My thoughts as well
>  * I do not seem to see any theme, even though there's obviously the
>   beefy-miracle one installed. It's probably missing in configs
>   (/etc/grub.d/) though -- my issue, or a general one?
The theme was disabled cause apparently it caused performance issues
on lower-end computers :(
you can enable it by adding this line
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt
to the file /etc/default/grub
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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