Hi, The GRUB2 currently does not provide any mechanism to display a description paragraph for the *menuentry* item the user has highlighted.
The SYSLINUX project already has this very useful feature, but I switched from ISOLINUX as GRUB2 is otherwise more powerful, far better maintained and crucially has better support for Secure Boot. *Please view the following 5 second animated GIF that I created as a demonstration of the feature I'm proposing*: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1414379/83353723-b925be80-a393-11ea-8f52-24e3a066788b.gif . Currently with GRUB2 any explanatory text associated with a *menuentry* needs to be either placed within the *menuitem* title or in a separate manual. Being able to display descriptions is very important for custom distributions, especially those aimed at newbie users. I can produce a patchset for further discussion. One solution is to ensure: - GRUB menuentry items allows specifying the description text - GRUB theme file allows position/size/font to display help text An alternative solution is to ensure: - GRUB allows registering callback function (this may be difficult) - GRUB allows referencing theme objects using the 'id' field, to enable/disable visibility What do you all think? If you guys are happy with the first solution, I will implement it. Regards, Shasheen Ediriweera Developer of Rescuezilla
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