* Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote, On 06/11/07 21:37: > Amin Azez wrote: > >> >> At the same time, can we consider supporting specification of >> alternative short menu texts, suitable for display on 16 character LCD >> screens. >> >> I'll be doing some work on grub-legacy to support boot menu's on such >> serial-port based displays as soon as I get a firmware update from one >> manufacturer. >> >> I hope grub 2 can consider this early on. >> > > It will be more modular than old grub legacy hacks. But I fear you need > to hack this yourself :). Basicly current idea is that you just > re-implement viewer/controller module for the menu. > > But using both serial (text terminal) and graphical menu could be an > issue that could be solved... could be nice feature for servers as a > backup control. >
I will hack it support of the display myself, but I want the config file to recognize that some displays are small and support provision of an alternate small-title. I want this to be a property of a menu entry, specifiable in the config file, representable in the menu item structs, etc. That much is beyond my scope as it affects grub2 as a whole. Perhaps it would be simpler to just suggest something as simple as tab character would delimit the short text from the full text, rather than make the changes I suggested. It would be a hack and less intrusive, but I would rather grub2 had the capability to deal with constrained displays. Sam
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