On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:47:38 +0100 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:33:24AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > > BTW, the theme document is also on the wiki at > > <http://grub.enbug.org/ThemeFormat>. > > > > I am about to build GRUB for testing again, from the experimental > > branch, and I can migrate my example themes to the new format. It > > looks from the source like the changes are mostly related to > > allowing proportional position/size specifications. > > Hi Colin, > > More important than the format, is that we need a basic theme that > only depends on the fonts we currently provided. Of course, this can > be improved as long as the new fonts are free (patches against the > build system welcome), but for now we only build single-size unifont. Ok, I understand. > (Aside from that, adding new fonts would introduce a delay for > distributors as they need to add new packages, get them approved, > etc. So in the interest in bringing gfxmenu to mainstream as soon as > possible, I would _strongly_ recommend to use the existing fonts for > now) When you say “existing fonts” do you mean there is a font other than unifont? > Also, if you'd like to make an official GRUB theme with GNU-based > image set, you're more than welcome. That's a good idea, for OS distributions that don't care to make their own theme, at least we could have one or two good choices. Regards, Colin
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