On Saturday 18 February 2012 10:30:14 pm Tiago Marques wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:17 PM, /dev/ammo42 <mickeytintincolle@...>wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:07:13 +0000
> > Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@...> wrote:
> >
> > > IMHO these kind of options don't even make sense. If the user needs to
> > > change the kernel, it could do it with the grub editors that sometime
> > > ships in distros or just use the keyboard error. This has been a
> > > feature that has confused me since KDE 3.2
> > KDE4 has the same feature, including a recently implemented GRUB2
> > backend
> > (http://ksmanis.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/grub2burg-integration-in-kde/)
> > so it seems to be useful to some people.
> > (btw the GRUB2 patch seems to apply cleanly (but still manually as
> > the KCM-related file changed place between KDE3 and KDE4) to Trinity
> > 3.5.13, but I didn't test it as I don't have GRUB2; the patch is
> > available at
> >
> > https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/0733cc114cfb0c1a81bc664b1274f48700ba7066/diff
> > )
> >
>
> It seems useful to some people who multiboot but even those should be savvy
> enough to know how to select on grub. <snip>
Then their are those of us too lazy to do so, or that are easily distracted (like myself ;-) ) and who miss the chance to select the OS. (of course, I could increase the timeout in GRUB, but I'm both too lazy and too obsessed with a faster boot ;-) )
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Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
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