On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > You can easily replace the background image, it's a > > > standard PCX image file. You can even re-arrange the > > > position of the menu if necessary; there are simple > > > variable settings for that in the theme.conf file. > > > > What about the actual menu items, are they configurable too (e.g. when > > I want single-user as F1... ACPI should work now on most systems and I > > don't see why disabling it should be in the first position), or does > > it use the same stuff as the text menu for this (to fiddling with > > forth would be necessary)? > > The actual menu contents are in the beastie.4th file, just > like for the old text menu. So, yes, you'd need to speak > FORTH in order to change that. > > How many of the FreeBSD developers are actually fluent in > FORTH? How many committers are able to review the .4th > code that I wrote? > > Would there be strong resistance if I tried to replace FICL > with something else that is not as brain-knotting as FORTH? > Just to name an example, I once wrote a bourne-shell-like > parser that would not be difficult to embed. I assume that > would enable many more developers and users to play with > the boot menu stuff. Great idea. That Forth code is really an obstacle for playing with the boot menu...
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