On 08/11/14 09:22, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Felipe López <felipe.lo...@openmailbox.org> skribis: > >> Done. The SVG is in the repository now. > > Thanks! > > Commit 99ae9ce does preliminary integration. I tested it on VMs as well > as raw hardware, and it works well. :-) > > There are a couple of shortcomings: > > 1. I didn’t know how to get the screen’s aspect ratio so that grub.cfg > would load the right image. Any ideas? >
I thought that maybe you could access a platform-specific default resolution from a helper script using the GRUB helper library (grub-mkconfig) and then set the background image with an appropriate aspect ratio. [1] But I haven't written any script for GRUB before, so I don't know. > 2. ‘set color_normal’ and similar only allow the use of color names > (see color.c in GRUB), so I wasn’t able to specify the right colors > for the menu items and border. > You can use these values: color_normal=light-gray/black color_highlight=cyan/black I tried them in this computer and they are pretty much the same colors I used in the mock-up. > Apparently there’s a CSS-like theme format. Would you be able to > come up with the right incantation? > I'll try to provide a GRUB theme [2] when I read a bit more about how they work. So, maybe not for Guix 0.8. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#gfxmode [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Theme-file-format -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/
