Re: Grub splashimage (yes me again)

[Herbert Szumovski]

At 22:29 01.01.2003, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote:
>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?

I agree completely. Especially if these are easy enhancements like the above.
One more of these would be, when one calls "setup" it could write a message
to the terminal where it will write the loader to (partition or MBR) and asks
you if you really want to do that, then one could enter "y" or "n".
For the hardliners there is still the install command.
  And to out me completely :-) :  I use the RH version with my
own splashimage.

/Herbert