CD boot language menu changes

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Apr 7 13:12:34 UTC 2008


I've made a few small adjustments to the language menu displayed at CD
boot time. This is technically a UI freeze break, so I wanted to notify
you so that screenshots can be updated. (It won't be a disaster if they
aren't, as the menu is still used in the same way.)

I think this change is justified, as the automatic pop-up of the
language menu was causing a certain amount of confusion, and this makes
it look more deliberate.

Here's the changelog:

gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.5.17) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add a header to the language and keymap menus; this seems to make it
    feel like less of an accident when the language menu is displayed
    automatically on startup.
  * Don't display "Press F4 to select alternative start-up and installation
    modes" until the initial language menu has been dismissed (LP: #197260).
  * Update sizes of menu items before adjusting the menu to avoid screen
    width overflow (LP: #44950).

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:09:10 +0100

... and here's an updated screenshot, taken in kvm:

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/gfxboot-language.png

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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