Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-08 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 08.03.2012 16:14, Andreas Vogel wrote: Am 08.03.2012 15:11, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: On 05.03.2012 16:43, Andreas Vogel wrote: Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: option with an optional argument. By this we would have had what you prefe

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-08 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 08.03.2012 15:11, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: > On 05.03.2012 16:43, Andreas Vogel wrote: >> Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: option with an optional argument. By this we would have had what you preference and my way too. Regarding

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-08 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 05.03.2012 12:16, Andreas Vogel wrote: if [ "feature" = unavail ] ; then set hidden=1 else set hidden=0 fi menuentry "Boot memtest86" --hidden $hidden { ... } for looks nicer opposed to if [ "feature" = unavail ] ; then set hidden="--hidden

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-08 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 05.03.2012 16:43, Andreas Vogel wrote: Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: option with an optional argument. By this we would have had what you preference and my way too. Regarding optional arguments the option handling in GRUB is actually broken by design, so

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: 5) menuentry --silent 0|1 When using menuentries which just sets some variables or do some other (non booting tasks), it's really bothering to see a flickering empty terminal box just for nothing. When this flag

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: >> option with an optional argument. By this we would have had what you >> preference and my way too. Regarding optional arguments the option >> handling in GRUB is actually broken by design, so this is, >> unfortunately, not an op

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
(CC'ing Colin because of theme stuff and it overlaps with what he needs for Ubuntu) By this it would be possible to use a quite generic theme.txt file for different resolutions, etc. This is already possible. Use percent notation for desired size and BTW, another point which might be address

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 02:30, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: >> this works already. For submenus this doesn't work as the submenu >> entries are not re-evaluated after execution of it's menuentries. >> Example: >> set lang=us >> menuentry 'Boot with lang=$lang' { ... ; linux lang=$

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:40:57 +0100, a écrit : > On 05.03.2012 02:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:30:11 +0100, a > >écrit : > >>>6) menuentry --enabled 0|1 > >>>It's a good practice to show menuentries

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-04 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 05.03.2012 02:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:30:11 +0100, a écrit : 6) menuentry --enabled 0|1 It's a good practice to show menuentries even if they are not applicable in different situations (that's common for all major menu systems).

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:30:11 +0100, a écrit : > >6) menuentry --enabled 0|1 > >It's a good practice to show menuentries even if they are not applicable > >in different situations (that's common for all major menu systems). If a > >menu entry is disabled, it is

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-04 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 05.03.2012 02:13, Andreas Vogel wrote: I took the last few nights to divide my previously submitted huge patch into logical parts (around 10 patches now). Some of them I've submitted already. So right now it seems to me that it's useless to waste your time (and my time too) to submit more pat

Ideas for the future

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Vogel
I took the last few nights to divide my previously submitted huge patch into logical parts (around 10 patches now). Some of them I've submitted already. So right now it seems to me that it's useless to waste your time (and my time too) to submit more patches or even to discuss them due to code fre