Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Dane Mutters
Also, on my system (as well as many others), I end up with 2 lines for Windows 7 (or Vista, when I was using that)--only one of which boots. One is the system partition; one is the main partition. Fixing this by hand wouldn't be such a big deal if one didn't have to write part of a shell script t

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Denis Washington writes: > - The Ubuntu entries as the kernel version ("Ubuntu, with kernel > 3.2.0-9...") that do not relate to anything that we usually present > the user. It would be much nicer if we had the actual Ubuntu version > stand there instead, so that the entry just becomes "Ubuntu 12.0

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Denis Washington
Am 18.01.2012 12:43, schrieb Colin Watson: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:32:35AM +, Paul Sladen wrote: I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you perhaps try to mock up before/after "screenshots", so that it's clear each change that you'd like to make? As the Ubunt

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:32:35AM +, Paul Sladen wrote: > I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you > perhaps try to mock up before/after "screenshots", so that it's clear > each change that you'd like to make? As the Ubuntu GRUB maintainer I'd prefer text. Since

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Denis Washington wrote: Greetings Dennis, > Given that this Ubuntu cycle is all about "precision" with little > Who do you think? (Is that something to file a bug about?) I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you perhaps try to mock up before/af

Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-17 Thread Denis Washington
Hello, Given that this Ubuntu cycle is all about "precision" with little details, how about taking some "techie" cruft out of the GRUB boot selection menu entries? Currently, these seem pretty confusing to a casual user: - The Ubuntu entries as the kernel version ("Ubuntu, with kernel 3.2.0