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

[Alexander Kurtz]

Am Montag, den 17.01.2011, 12:26 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:42:37PM +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> >  b) I'm thinking about not setting any default background colors and
> >     just using GRUB's defaults.
> 
> I was just bitten by the black/black nonsense myself, and was unable to
> see anything useful until I typed 'set color_normal=white/black' blind.

As mentioned earlier[1] there are valid reasons for using 'black/black'.
And there are valid reasons against using these colors. This simply
depends on the background image. I therefore agree with Mario's
position[2] that we shouldn't set any background colors at all.

> If I can be bitten by this, others definitely can!  I'm going to change
> this to just use the defaults, as you suggest.

Have you read my last mail[3] with the proposed patch? What do you think
of it?

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608263#52
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608263#57
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608263#87
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