I've been thinking about the whole gfxmenu thing, and I'm rather
interested in writing some VESA graphics support code for com32.
However, I'm a completely worthless graphics designer, and I really
don't want to do the graphics design, for obvious reasons. Partly
because I think if we're going to do a graphical menu system it should
be possible to theme it, and do various kinds of animated graphics, etc.
So, if I hack up some basic graphic-access routines, is anyone
interested in actually doing the heavy lifting and making it look really
cool?
I think what I'd really like to see in the end is something that can
talk to the VESA graphics screen, if one exist, otherwise to a text-mode
screen, and also to a serial port (using escape codes.)
The last is important and quite possibly the biggest shortcoming of the
current menu system. Serial console is a big win, and I'd like to
eventually support network console, at least in pxelinux.
-hpa
