Allow user to specify text colors in /etc/default/grub

[Peter Hurley]

When a background image is installed, the plymouth or default theme colors may no longer be appropriate. Attached is patch to 05_debian_theme to allow setting via /etc/default/grub.

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[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Hi Peter,
  I don't know enough about GRUB to fully review your patch, however:

  a) I think you should probably be adding an entry in the default /etc/default/grub
  b) Something in the grub info file that's referenced by /etc/default/grub

Dave

[Peter Hurley (phurley)]

Dave, Good point about the grub info file. I'll see about adding something there.

Regarding a default entry in /etc/default/grub: the 05_debian_theme patch already has a number of fallback cases to specifically handle default behavior if certain settings are absent (eg, this is how it pulls the plymouth theme colors). I don't want to get involved in that policy mess.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Peter,
  What I was thinking about for /etc/default/grub was more a commented line showing how to do it,
in the same way that GRUB_INIT_TUNE, GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY etc are there as examples.

Dave

[Peter Hurley (phurley)]

Sorry, I was just be narrow-minded. Of course, a couple of '#' sharp comments would be very effective for the typical user looking to solve the problem.

[Peter Hurley (phurley)]

Whoa, good party.... 's/I was just be narrow-minded/I was just being narrow-minded/'

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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