https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405557
Bug ID: 405557
Summary: Rebot into..
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff)
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Allow rebooting into specific entry from leave options
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Even single-boot systems have memtest and rescue boot entries, so this is not
exclusive to multi-boot systems.
This also should blend in well with the new 'reboot into UEFI' option.
I think of a menu in Kickoff in Leave tab that opens when you either hover over
"Reboot" for some time or after right-clicking there comes a pop-up? Or any
other way you think would be good. (Maybe a new entry in leave options)
The backend would be 'grub-reboot #' command
Currently to achieve such a reboot, one has to open up a terminal and type
'sudo grub-reboot #' - where # is the number of right boot entry, so the user
must know it beforehand.
This solution within Kickoff(Kicker as well?) could be smarter - scraping data
from GRUB config files to inform user which entry corresponds with given
number, so there could be a sub-menu with a list of boot entries, like:
- Neon
- memtest
- UEFI
- Windows
- Androidx86
- Other-distros..
- etc.
Summing up, users would not need to watch for grub menu during boot, and waste
attention not to miss it (good luck if it is hidden or has 2s timeout). It is
not only handy, comfortable feature, but it also allows for better boot
experience, as with it, there is no need to show GRUB menu at boot time at all!
(unless you press e.g. shift, or some error happened yielding 30s timeout,
which grub does automatically for us)
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