BootloaderManager
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Launchpad Entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-bootloader-manager
Packages affected: Ubiquity
Summary
A simple bootloader manager (as a part of Google Summer of code), to choose the order of the operating systems, customize the appearance and some settings, accessed in Gnome Control Center and as an installation step.
Rationale
There is no tool in Ubuntu that make that configuration easier for novices and Non-English users.
Use Cases
Frank is a novice, that want to change the order of the operating systems, the timeout and set a theme. He goes to Gnome Control Center->Ubuntu Bootloader Manager and and change it.
- Rui is a user that doesn't understand English and he want to set a theme, he goes to Ubuntu Bootloader Manager and set it.
Scope
This will be developed in Python and PyGTK/Glade so it can be easily ported to another distribution that use Gnome and Gnome Control Center
Design & Implementation
- UI for novice and advanced users, that will be able to change operating system order, the default one, the name, add new (with a wizard dialog), change kernel options, set the fallback option, the savedefault option, delete operating systems, set a password for console and for operating systems, or one password for each. and change the theme, hide menu, and if the user commits a mistake there is a undo option.
Save the menu configuration on a xml file for keep setting if menu.lst has changed with update-grub command.
- Detect if the system has Grub as a bootloader, if doesn't disable the tool.
- A new step in ubiquity with a simple UI.
Install GfxBoot if the user wants, and download some themes.
Implement a Grub theme(for normal grub not for GfxBoot) file in a compressed file, with the splash image with a xml file, with some specifications( like colors).
Implement a preview of the "normal" themes and for GfxBoot.
Every time the user change menu.lst, create a backup for further malfunction.
Theme editor(not for GfxBoot).