On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> That random key could be shift, or space or enter, or esc, or F8, >> or Shift+F8, or whatever. > > Okay, right. The problem with that is, though, that users won't know > what it is, which is why maybe it's better to accept across a bunch of > different keys? (This makes sense right?) Whatever is decided, I think it should be proposed via the BootLoaderSpec project, so that there's some hope of distributions agreeing on the keys. This is exactly the sort of linux Ux fragmentation that I find user hostile, rather than anything about freedom (well, except freedom to be different for no good reason and thus user hostile). http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
