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Re: usability
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: usability |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:59:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
> We need to discuss more on internationalization... I will post my idea
> about this later.
Please do. I know very little about this subject and I think that is
true for many people. I am Dutch and for Dutch (and English) ASCII
(or anything ASCII like) is enough.
So I don't know much about it, when it is used, etc. But don't take
me wrong, I find this very important.
>> If selecting a menu item is not a noop anymore it can be used already
>> to boot. I can implement this, if you want me to.
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean here.
Ok. You already implemented a very simple menu. But when I choose an
option, nothing happens. It is easy to change it so it actually boots
the option you have chosen.
I know you want to work more on this, but I think it is important to
have something that works in an early stage. For the Pc and apple
versions we have almost everything that is required.
> BTW, if you have any new feature you want in GRUB 2, let me know. I'm
> thinking these extensions:
I think I told you my opinion in every case and I will continue to do
so.
> - Labelling entries
What is a label used for?
> - Tree interface
> I'm not sure about this feature.
I like it. Currently on my development box I have a boot item called
"Network menu" (yeah, stupid name). When I choose that it loads the
menu.lst from my tftp server. In that menu.lst some GNU Mach, L4 and
toy kernels are listed.
> - User-definable shortcuts
Nice.
>> I can commit Thomas' patch for the chainloader. I could do the other
>> two as well, if you don't want to.
>
> Please. :)
Ok.
> Not only. Currently, GRUB has no way to resolve dependencies
> automatically, so I want to implement this feature.
I think Thomas sent in a patch for this, right? Could you please
review it? You have more knowledge about module loading.
>> What would be useful is extending the TODO if you feel important
>> things are missing. GRUB 2 is quite an active project (people
>> already know it and are willing to work on it) and chances are high
>> people want to work on things you put in the TODO. Especially when
>> it is networking related, from what I have noticed people want to
>> work on it but don't really know what to do.
>
> I see. I will do that. But maybe we want to have Wiki? I think Wiki is
> very efficient to share some rough ideas, such as a TODO list. What do
> you think?
This is a very good idea. Can you set up a wiki?
Thanks,
Marco