Most of users (specially beginners) don't know these details :(

2009/12/20 أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <
[email protected]>

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:38:13PM +0100, Abdelmonam Kouka wrote:
> > >  1) Grub theme would not appear by default. To be able to see the grub
> > >     theme, the user has to comment the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT line.
> > >
> > I know that, and I comment it to simplify the use of Sabily for
> > Linux_beginners. I propose to do so with sabily artwork package.
> > [...]
> > I don't know, we can keep this point to solve it next release inshalla,
> now
> > since we have not a lot of time editing /etc/grub.d/10_linux is
> preferred.
> ---end quoted text---
>
> I don't want to do neither of them for two reasons:
>
> 1. As far as I know, editing conf files or files installed by other
>   packages is a really frowned upon behaviour in packaging. Yes, I have
>   done it for a couple of packages (which never entered formal Ubuntu
>   repositories), but I always seek a better way.
> 2. As for GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT, it was made for a good reason; which is
>   to make booting faster. So I don't want to change this default
>   behaviour. If a user wants to see the grub menu, he will have to
>   change this GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT thing.
>
> --
>  ‎أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
>  Digital design engineer
>  GPG KeyID: 0xEDDDA1B7 (@ subkeys.pgp.net)
>  GPG Fingerprint: 8206 A196 2084 7E6D 0DF8  B176 BC19 6A94 EDDD A1B7
>



-- 
عبد المنعم كوكة
Abdelmonam Kouka
http://sabily-guru.blogspot.com/
_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team
Post to     : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team
More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

رد على