On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 12:49:19AM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping that someone else might stand-up but as there wasn't really > interest I made a draft. This is basically using Okuji's idea of using > CSS for specifying look. I made HTML page and example CSS filling > information. And of course it looks ugly as I didn't spent too much on > tuning it. > > At first layout of the page would be hard-coded to grub2 graphical menu > to make it simple, but now I would like to invite people with some > stylish touch (and free time) to try it out and pin-point possible > problems with the layout and possibly design some menu theme that could > be used as a basis for official grub2 (or at least for testing it out) > :). Please be free to use bitmaps, preferably PNG or other lossless > format (so it can be easily converted to another if needed for testing > purposes). > > Contents of the HTML basicly is changeable, div tags are for now > hardcoded to be as they are specified. With a good reason that can be > changed (eg. discuss it before hand). > > I haven't yet decided what kind of layout engine there would be but > something simple most likely. There is most likely need to have scroll > bar support for menuitems, haven't figured out yet how define it nicely. > Possibly there needs to be some UI components, eg. way to specify what > kind of progress bar there is, some flags for about it etc. > > Final style sheet will be most likely some extension to CSS in order to > give more flexibility, but I think the common concepts should be saved > to make it easier to adapt to it. > > All ideas are welcome and now would be good time to share them...
One thing that would be nice to have is a scheme by which GRUB could display a popup "window" such as an informative message or a boolean query. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel