Bug#493106: New environment variables (for gfxmode and background path and other)

[spamgrinder]

Subject: grub-pc: New environment variables (for gfxmode and background path and other)
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080724-2
Severity: wishlist

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I would like to avoid to edit scripts in /etc/grub.d from grub-pc
because dpkg does not overwrite it during update - leaves the old version noninteractively.

My only change in 00_header script is "set gfxmode=1024x768". It
overwrites default 640x480.

I would like to keep the gfxmode variable in /etc/default/grub. By the way, I propose introduce variable for background image path, e.g. BACKGROUND=/usr/share/images/GRUB-bg.png.

I have yet another suggestion about adding new variables to
/etc/default/grub. Is it possible to append 
the new variable declarations to existing file 
instead of totally overwritting or totally keeping (during update by apt)?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.4-rt2-2 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.22          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20080724-2 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo2-2                2.03-1          data compression library
ii  libncurses5              5.6+20080713-1  shared libraries for terminal hand

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  4.0.7      common files for the Debian Deskto
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded