On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Mer 23 mai 2007 13:54, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:39 +0800, Ken YANG wrote: > >> as we see, suse 10.2 has the animation grub, it looks good. > >> > >> can fedora has this kind of grub? > >> > > > > We (the desktop team) hope to get rid of the grub menu in the default > > boot sequence instead of making it nicer. See > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup > > Timeout = 0 is a very very bad idea. That would make hitting grub (and > booting anything but the default) very difficult. Screens do not > clear/change mode instanteanously. I've never seen the first few > seconds of the current timeout displayed on any system. > > Give some time for people to react. There's nothing more annoying for > a user that a key which needs to be pressed durring a minuscule time > window for stuff to happen. > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > /+1 big-screen LCDs and older CRTs tend to have a noticeable input lag (or in the cast of CRT, slow mode switch) making virtually impossible to control grub if timeout <= 3-4 seconds. We should not forget that a lot of Fedora users dual boot between Linux and Windows - which makes them the first to get hit if grub goes zero-wait. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
