Re: Grub splashimage (yes me again)

[Dr. Tilmann Bubeck]

Yoshinori K. Okuji sagte:
> At Wed, 1 Jan 2003 03:44:35 +1100,
> Jason Thomas wrote:
>> okuji do you think its possible to include the splashimage stuff if
>> the author supports it?
>
> No. I have already said the conclusion. Splashimage is not important for
> boot loaders at all, so its support is never added to 0.9x.

This is very sad. I think that technical details of a software are very
important (and GRUB is "best-of-class"). However, the usability of a
software is also very important (maybe even more important). Background
images and such "eye candies" is important for normal users so that it
looks good and feels comfortable..

I'm giving training at red hat and see many people struggling with lilo
because it is really ugly. GRUB is much nicer, but for example only a few
people know that pressing "TAB" in filenames gives directory listings.
This is why I asked you to include a "ls" command which is obviously
unneccesary but improves usability.

I would very much like to see e.g. background images and "ls" or many more
usability improvements. And last but not least: why not?

Don't be angry!
  Till

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