Re: Fedora GRUB2 boot menu, from design perspective

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Personal opinion from a longtime fedora user:

1) Why do I have to go to a separate menu to choose a different kernel? Granted, I don't often have to choose an older or custom kernel but "If it ain't broke don't fix it."

Simply because we want to make Fedora easier to use. For novice users, the kernel versions are just noise, they mean nothing, and probably cause a lot of confusion. Especially if they dual-boot, they wouldn't know what to choose, and might actually boot an older kernel regularly.
Furthermore, you can always revert to the current behaviour by simply editing some configuration files.

2) It should just be "Fedora".

Without release number? what if you have both Rawhide and 17 installed?
I think it should be Fedora $number

3) I don't like the way the grub menu looks right now with or without the theme. I like the old text non ubuntu/debian looking grub menu but that's just the oldskool person in me talking. 

Well, I like how it looks with the theme, but if you don't like it you could always make your own theme to make it look like you want, or talk with upstream grub and explain to them why you think the default doesn't look good.

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Dan

On Jun 19, 2012 1:07 AM, "Elad Alfassa" <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Elad,
>
> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 18:07 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
>> refer to this thread in -devel:
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/168712.html
>>
>> As I understand, by design, we wanted the older kernels to appear in
>> the "Advanced options" menu, but right now, it breaks every time you
>> run a kernel update.
>
> Yeh, it definitely sounds like broken behavior. Maybe we should get
> together with Josh Boyer and Peter Jones and see if we can't figure out
> some way to have older kernels go under the submenu.
>
>> Also, the string Fedora Linux is kinda wrong, cause the OS is called
>> Fedora.
>> It should be something like Fedora (with Linux kernel version here).
>
>> What is the stand of the design team on this?
>
> Well, fwiw, I think you're correct, it should just be 'Fedora' (Maybe
> Fedora + $RELEASE_NUMBER) not 'Fedora Linux.' However, I think the
> kernel versions should be in the submenu with, if I understand
> correctly, the older kernels listed out, but the newest one should just
> say Fedora. Is that too extreme?
Sounds reasonable. Show kernel versions only when they are really needed.
>
> ~m
>
>
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