On 03/11/2013 10:30 PM, Björn Persson wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: >> >>> Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured >>>> or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means >>>> you have to get it at the second or two where grub isn't displayed. >>>> The Ctrl option is quite nice as you can do it before the BIOS >>>> disappears. >>> >>> But how are users supposed to discover it? >> >> By hooking this up to keys people would natrually try, such as shift, >> space, enter, escape, or whatever windows does for their boot menu stuff. > > I would probably pound frantically on the keyboard trying to hit the > right key during some unknown, short interval. If there were no > interval at all and the right solution were to be holding a key at the > right moment, then I'd probably have about a 50% chance of not pressing > any key at that moment. > > And after I happened to press the right key at the right moment I still > wouldn't know which of the keys I pressed was the right one, so I'd > have to pound frantically the next time too. > > After a few iterations I'd also be cursing the idiots who designed such > an unfriendly user interface just because they didn't want any text on > the screen. +1 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
