Comments on: directhex-grub-themes 00000001 release announcement. http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/ we like kittens and spoons and cake Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:55:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike S. http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2297 Mike S. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:31:42 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2297 can you guys please get current docs for this? how can we write themes when we can't figure out how it's fscking supposed to work? all your work is worthless is it's not documented :(. can you guys please get current docs for this? how can we write themes when we can’t figure out how it’s fscking supposed to work? all your work is worthless is it’s not documented :(.

]]> By: directhex http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2117 directhex Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:03:18 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2117 <a href="#comment-2116" rel="nofollow">@Florent V.</a>, http://grub.gibibit.com/Theme_format is the most up-to-date resource, but it doesn't cover features that Vladimir implemented during development of my theme - the key differences being individual "left", "width", "top" and "height" values which all accept numbers of the form a+b% (e.g. 78%-80) for scalable alignment @Florent V., http://grub.gibibit.com/Theme_format is the most up-to-date resource, but it doesn’t cover features that Vladimir implemented during development of my theme – the key differences being individual “left”, “width”, “top” and “height” values which all accept numbers of the form a+b% (e.g. 78%-80) for scalable alignment

]]> By: Florent V. http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2116 Florent V. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:56:18 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2116 <a href="#comment-2087" rel="nofollow">@directhex</a>, as i said i value your work. Regarding the graphic quality, maybe getting a GRUB2 release out of the door with bundled graphic themes will motivate artists or artistically-enclined coders to build on this work and improve the look and feel. Are the current theming capabilities of GRUB2 documented? A not-too-technical brief telling designers what they can do and what they can't could be a good starting point to try to get graphic contributions. @directhex, as i said i value your work. Regarding the graphic quality, maybe getting a GRUB2 release out of the door with bundled graphic themes will motivate artists or artistically-enclined coders to build on this work and improve the look and feel.

Are the current theming capabilities of GRUB2 documented? A not-too-technical brief telling designers what they can do and what they can’t could be a good starting point to try to get graphic contributions.

]]> By: Komputery » Blog Archive » GRUB z motywami graficznymi http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 Komputery » Blog Archive » GRUB z motywami graficznymi Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:48:18 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2105 [...] Motyw stworzony przez Jo Shields’a to nie jedyny dostępny motyw graficzny. Tematów jest już kilka, a dostępne są na oficjalnej stronie projektu GNU GRUB Graphical Menu. [...] [...] Motyw stworzony przez Jo Shields’a to nie jedyny dostępny motyw graficzny. Tematów jest już kilka, a dostępne są na oficjalnej stronie projektu GNU GRUB Graphical Menu. [...]

]]> By: Robert Millan http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2097 Robert Millan Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:36:29 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2097 <a href="#comment-2096" rel="nofollow">@Kai Hendry</a>, GRUB supports a gazillon of features (L10N, LVM, RAID, multiple filesystems...) in a gazillon of different CPUs (i386, powerpc, sparc, mips...), firmware types (BIOS, IEEE1275, coreboot...) and kernels (Multiboot kernels, Linux, kernels of *BSD...). As a result, the codebase is extensive, but rest assured that only a minimal part of it is executed during boot, or even loaded in memory, in your typical use case. extlinux is a tool for one platform (i386 with BIOS) to load one kernel (Linux) using a legacy 16-bit boot protocol on one filesystem using hardcoded blocklist kludge. It serves a very specific purpose and overall is a very different program. I think you're comparing apples and oranges. @Kai Hendry, GRUB supports a gazillon of features (L10N, LVM, RAID, multiple filesystems…) in a gazillon of different CPUs (i386, powerpc, sparc, mips…), firmware types (BIOS, IEEE1275, coreboot…) and kernels (Multiboot kernels, Linux, kernels of *BSD…). As a result, the codebase is extensive, but rest assured that only a minimal part of it is executed during boot, or even loaded in memory, in your typical use case.

extlinux is a tool for one platform (i386 with BIOS) to load one kernel (Linux) using a legacy 16-bit boot protocol on one filesystem using hardcoded blocklist kludge. It serves a very specific purpose and overall is a very different program. I think you’re comparing apples and oranges.

]]> By: Kai Hendry http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2096 Kai Hendry Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:10:13 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2096 <a href="#comment-2095" rel="nofollow">@phcoder</a>, 138k SLOC for grub2 ~1k SLOC extlinux Grub is practically an OS now! I'd rather not mess about with modules. Thanks, @phcoder,

138k SLOC for grub2
~1k SLOC extlinux

Grub is practically an OS now!

I’d rather not mess about with modules. Thanks,

]]> By: phcoder http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2095 phcoder Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:49:17 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2095 <a href="#comment-2093" rel="nofollow">@Kai Hendry</a>, could you elaborate what kind of bloat do you mean? GRUB is organised into modules and you can delete the modules you don't need @Kai Hendry, could you elaborate what kind of bloat do you mean? GRUB is organised into modules and you can delete the modules you don’t need

]]> By: Robert Millan http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2094 Robert Millan Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:48:23 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2094 Thank you Jo! I'll see about getting this into Debian experimental ASAP. This will help getting the gfxmenu code tested (yeah, please everyone who reads this, go ahead and try it ;-)) so that we can merge it into Bazaar trunk. It's a pleasure working with you ;-) Thank you Jo!

I’ll see about getting this into Debian experimental ASAP. This will help getting the gfxmenu code tested (yeah, please everyone who reads this, go ahead and try it ;-)) so that we can merge it into Bazaar trunk.

It’s a pleasure working with you ;-)

]]> By: Kai Hendry http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2093 Kai Hendry Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:08:57 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2093 It would be good if you looked at creating syslinux themes too. http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2009/12/16#20091216_syslinux-themes-debian I refuse to use Grub anymore thanks to its terrific bloat. It would be good if you looked at creating syslinux themes too. http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2009/12/16#20091216_syslinux-themes-debian

I refuse to use Grub anymore thanks to its terrific bloat.

]]> By: ikonia http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/228/comment-page-1/#comment-2092 ikonia Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:23:10 +0000 http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/?p=228#comment-2092 Nice effort on this, I followed some of your discussion on the irc channel for grub. Nice effort on this, I followed some of your discussion on the irc channel for grub.

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