Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 02:29:13AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Saturday, 2008-11-01 at 21:35 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
>
> > > > The open or a different question is how to display this state ot the
> > > > opportinities to the user at the grub screen.  Here the help of
> > > > usebility experts might be the most promising approach.
> > >
> > > I believe that simply it adds an entry to the menu with the kernel name and
> > > version, probably sorted by age. This is done by a script in the kernel
> > > rpm.
> >
> > This is _currently_ all done with the help of the script hooks
> > (preinstall,postinstall,preuninstall,postuninstall) of the kernel RPM.
> >
> > The question I had in mind was: How to make the install of several
> > kernels _useable_.
>
> I don't understand, there is no problem. When you boot, you will see a menu 
> like (invented numbers):
>
>   title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.4-2
>   title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.4-1
>   title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.3-5
>
> What's the problem with that? Because that's the way it is handled, AFAIK.

A new user might not know how to handle three different offers.

Therefore it might be useful to "hide" the opportunities but have them
available on request.

That's why I gave the example with KDM and the opportunity to decide
which window manager to use for the next login session.  The
alternatives (KDE3,KDE4,gnome,...) aren't visibile by default in KDM.

On the other side one additional line at the grub menu shown for 8
seconds shouldn't be too confusing.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany