Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

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>>>>> "CM" == Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

CM> I think it's to avoid ambiguity. F8 on one of my computers tells the
CM> firmware to do a firmware update or some such thing, so I'm going to
CM> press F8 and maybe get a firmware update menu, or maybe I'll get a
CM> GRUB menu, depending on my timing. And I think such ambiguity will
CM> inevitably lead to bad UI/UX.

Unfortunately anything you pick will be ambiguous.  The change under
discussion mentions adding F8 to the set of keys checked, so that would
already conflict for you (and already conflicts with Windows, which
suggests to me that this isn't really much of a conflict).  I have a
number of machines which use 'Esc' as the key to enter the BIOS, so that
conflicts with grub now but somehow it has never even occurred to me
that any conflict exists.

Plus, there's an upside: if you're hammering F11 or F8 or F12 or Esc or
whatever to try and get into the BIOS, and you miss it, then at least
you stop in grub instead of going straight into the OS.

CM> This is one of those areas were Apple's UX is vastly superior, the
CM> keyboard shortcuts for firmware and bootloader have been
CM> standardized for a very long time - at least 20 years, across
CM> multiple archs and hardware generations and development teams.

If you're going to select just a particular hardware/software
combination like that, then you could say the same for a number of
individual laptop or motherboard manufacturers when combined with
Windows.  Taken as a whole there is no standardization across the
industry.

CM> I think it needs to be made specific, unambiguous, and deliberate.

And... there's nothing that satisfies those to my knowledge.  The only
thing I see as remotely unambiguous is "press any key to enter the grub
menu".

Anyway, I don't really care what gets chosen here, but I sure would like
the option to actually configure what keys grub watches instead of just
having it be 'Esc' and maybe patched to include 'F8'.  Grub seems to be
so flexible so it seems odd that this bit is hardcoded.

 - J<
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