[Bug 736576] Re: Gfxmenu does not honor the GRUB_FONT if theme loader fails to load theme

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Gfxmenu does not honor the GRUB_FONT if theme loader fails to load
  theme

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  The gfxmenu does not honor the GRUB_FONT environment variable if the
  theme loader fails to load the theme.  When the theme loader fails to
  load a theme, the menu is displayed using text.  However, the text
  defaults to 'Unknown Regular 16' as coded on line # 65 of view.c.  If
  this font (unicode.pf2) is not loaded, or a different font is
  specified in the GRUB_FONT variable, the text displayed is really ugly
  and if you drop to the grub prompt, it's difficult to read.  IMHO,
  view.c should use any font loaded by the GRUB_FONT variable.  This is
  also the default behaviour if the 'terminal-font' property is not set
  in the theme.txt file.

  I'm using Maverick with grub-pc=1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3 but I suspect
  the above may also be present in Lucid using grub-pc=1.98-1ubuntu
  (5-10).

  This is more of a feature request than a bug.   Include the color
  names from 'rgb.txt' also in the name_colors.c file.  This would give
  the themer a much wider range of color names to work with than the
  limited few list in the named_colos.cc file.

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