On 03/13/2013 01:32 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On 03/12/2013 07:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> I am saying this because I agree. To me the proposal (not the original
> but some point in the the 500 ms boot time "ideal" ) seemed very much
> a welded shut view. And as someone who has to worked on welded shut
> computers for asthetic reasons.. it brings out the fighting urge in
> me.
Did you guys actually read the blog post? Is aesthetics cited in any of
the reasons for hiding the menu? No, it's not. These were the reasons I
cited in favor of the proposal to hide the menu:
- We used to suppress the boot menu by default in earlier releases
and
its suppression didn’t cause major problems.
Well, at least for me, re-activating
has always been a part of the
routine after-install cleanup job, ever since I am using RH-based distros.
- Not listening for keypresses doesn’t probe USB, meaning not
waiting
for keypresses will make boot even faster since we won’t have to
load/probe USB.
Is this of any importance? Non-USB-equipped systems are rare to
find
these days, so loading/probing USB will be inevitable in the majority of
cases.
- (Nobody explicitly stated this, but) Displaying information
geared
towards power users by default is intimidating / confusing to
less-knowledgeable users."
I'd call this to be an urban legend. A boot
menu is self-explanatory,
even to new-comers.
It may baffle them when they see it for the first time, but will very
soon get used to it.
Please be fair.
Please do so - I feel you are trying to solve a non-issue.
Ralf