Bug#461851: ambigous highlighting if background picture is enabled

[Alexander Kurtz]

# grub2 is a dummy transitional package nowadays
reassign 461851 grub-pc

# see below
forcemerge 608283 461851

# re-set title destroyed by the merging
retitle 608283 Please allow setting custom text colors for the GRUB menu in /etc/default/grub
thanks

Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 09:25 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> I believe the highlighting of the menu items is ambigous when the newly 
> introduced background image is enabled.
> 
> Consider you have only two menu items. Which one is 'highlighted', 
> magenta or black?
> Magenta is a dark color (at least on my CRT) and does not provide the 
> best possible contrast to black. Furthermore i believe that a colored 
> background indicates the selected menu item in a more obviuos way than 
> colored text.

As of today, the font and background colors for the default grub
background image are set by  desktop-base's
/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh script. The only thing that's
missing is support for setting custom colors. That's #608283[1] (and
friends).

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608283
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