Bug#608263: /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme: new 05_debian_theme doesn't allow no background image

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 05:53:25PM +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> I know this is a bit off-topic, but while I've been trying to solve this
> bug, I noticed that 00_header uses
> 
> 	background_image -m stretch `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "$GRUB_BACKGROUND"`
> 
> while 05_debian_theme currently uses
> 
> 	background_image `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${1}"
> 
> I'd also like to use `-m stretch' because that removes the black frame
> around the image (at least on my laptop) which definitely looks better.
> I guess this should be ok, right?

-m stretch does more than that; it scales the whole image to fit the
screen.  I imagine that this will look good with some images but not
with others, which makes it kind of awkward that we didn't have -m
stretch in there to begin with since it's hard for me to say which
images will deal well with this.  Do you have any way to analyse the
existing set of widely-deployed background images?

(And, of course, people will have different screen resolutions, etc.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]