Hi, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Holger Wansing, le mar. 01 janv. 2019 23:40:29 +0100, a ecrit: > > I wonder why this shouldn't be possible to solve ... > > Essentially because it somehow got out of my radar and nobody else seems > to have cared about it. > > > And appending "theme=dark" instead of "speakup.synth=soft" should be all > > that's > > needed to boot with high-contrast theme. > > For that example, yes. I'm a bit worried by a potential > proliferation of shortcuts in the boot menu. In > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/01/msg00346.html we discussed > having shortcuts within the installer itself to change colors (which can > be more useful than just having a "dark" theme). Later on we discussed > how it could be made easier to append kernel parameters (pressing > tab was easy in syslinux, grub doesn't have such easy way yet) since > it's needed for various cases anyway. We can also as well just add a > dark-theme shortcut indeed. I guess 'c' as "contrast" could be a better > shortcut than 'v'? (speech and braille, using other shortcuts, are also > for visual impairement).
c is as good as a shortcut, of course. Regarding the discussion from 2016 (and the main point "adding boot parameters to grub is not that easy; needs to be discussed with grub people): For people which are able to see, what they write, it is probably possible to add additionally parameters to a commandline, even if a bit uncomfortable; but for people being nearly blind at that step, it's de-facto not possible! That's why a shortcut for those scenario should be added. And following that argumentation, it should still be possible to argument why we do NOT add other shortcuts just for comfort. > > I have played with the syslinux config for legacy BIOS mode, and as far as I > > can test, it works for the netboot-gtk image, see the patch attached plus > > some > > new files that need to be added (for debian-installer/build/boot/x86). > > For syslinux it was relatively simple to get theme=dark appended to the > kernel line, it's more grub which needs to be given a shortcut. As written above: syslinux should get a shortcut too IMO. Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
