Comment 1 for bug 428443

I vote for this !

In fact there is a REGRESSION.

On previous Grub (Grub Legacy) you could parameter wether you want to display only the countdown or the entire menu.
This was done independantly of the number of O.S.es you got on your system.

Now the new system is very confusing.
It has two variables :
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET

And the documentation describes what these variables do... but it is unclear why the programmer decided these variables would do nothing at all if several O.S. are found on your platform.

I DO have several O.S. on my PC, and I like to have ONLY the countdown. I found it much more clean that a screen display full af lines of code.

Whenever I'd like to boot a different O.S. than the default one, I don't care having to type one keystroke more than I would with the direct display of the O.S. list, because this situation is quite an exception.

So please... give us back this feature !

[And for the moment, I apply the patch suggested -I did one myself in fact, which is not so clean but works fine-]