On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:06:40 +0200 Carles Pina i Estany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello, > > On Jul/19/2008, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:40:43 +0200 > > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany > > > wrote: > > > > > I'm a Grub user (thanks for your nice work!) and I always > > > > wanted to have a menu that "loops". Like, if you press down and > > > > you are in the last option it goes to the first one, and if you > > > > press up but you are int he first option goes to the last. > > [...] > > > > What does everyone else think? > > > > I think that wrapping around the menu with the arrow keys *can* be > > useful in some situations, but in general it seems like we should > > try to be consistent with the common UI behavior that is expected, > > at least by default. We could support a setting such as "set > > menuwrap=1" which would enable this feature for users who care > > about it. Then the users who don't care won't miss it, but the > > users who do care can still have it by adding a single line to > > grub.cfg. > > in one way, add an options for this looks a bit like "overkill" (as > Robert said). In the other hand, I have my hopes that distributions > would like it and (mainly) all of them would add this option by > default :-) so could be a nice way to know what some people think. I agree it is probably not worth creating an option for. It is probably best to just decide to wrap or not to wrap... "that is the question" ;-) > > > Colin, does this affect your graphical menu work in some way? I > > > suppose the same situation applies the same way to the upcoming > > > new menu. Or perhaps this can be made more flexible and be > > > toggled by some CSS magic? > > > > This would be no problem at all; it's essentially identical to how > > the text mode menu from normal.mod works. It could go either way, > > and certainly would be easy to make it a setting in the theme file > > (or more likely in a user-configurable place such as grub.cfg (?) > > -- since we might not expect most users to modify theme files but > > only choose which one to use). > > > > Actually my graphical menu currently *does* wrap around, I guess it > > I'm new in this list and in Grub2 (I hvae not used, actually). Are you > saying that there is some graphical menu that does wrap? I'm working on a graphical menu system for the Google Summer of Code 2008. You can find out more about it at: http://grub.gibibit.com/Journal It's not in the GRUB codebase yet, but it under heavy development. > > seemed logical to me at the time I wrote the code! 8-) As you can > > tell, I am not firmly set on either wrapping or not wrapping. > > my workmate wanted it, i wanted and I've spoke with my brother and he > really wanted. But maybe it's because brother-love :-) (this is not > proving anything, of course) I'm fine with either option -- I'll just make it consistent with whatever the core GRUB developers agree on. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
