This bug was fixed in the package gfxboot-theme-ubuntu - 0.7.0
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gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.7.0) jaunty; urgency=low
* Pop up "Other options" menu after pressing F6 just once, rather than
requiring two presses (LP: #294840).
-- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 20 Nov 200
Well, "standard widgets" in the sense of following a common GUI idiom;
the implementation's a whole 'nuther matter! Even now, there's the
little X's that appear next to selected options in the F6*2 menu, so it
would be an elaboration of that. (A unified menu, on the other hand,
does seem a tad over
** Changed in: gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (kamion)
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
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F6 menu behaviour is confusing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294840
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OK, I suppose that these are reasonable uses for expert mode. I just try
to avoid cases of people using it unnecessarily, since we put very
little effort into its UI.
On F4 vs. F6: what standard widgets? :-) This is all implemented in
gfxboot, and no standard widgets are available - we have to dra
On the more general point of a confusing F6*2 menu, I'd like to point
out that the F4 ("Modes") menu is not all that unrelated, in that both
address variations of the normal install process. Might it help to unify
these two?
The F4 menu is a choice of one out of four options, whereas F6*2 is a
set
Huh! First time I've ever seen that F6*2 menu.
I use expert mode so that I can...
* select a 104-key PC keyboard model, instead of an international
105-key (I don't know why it defaults to the latter)
* enable login as root, and not create a normal user account (for a
system that will have remot
