Especially using Kinoite, it is important to have a goodlooking Grub, as you will probably use it. Grub is the last part of the OS that looks outdated, which could be easily fixed by enabling breeze grub by default.
I heard grub2-breeze-theme is already packaged, so could be installed/layered without many problems?
grub2-breeze-theme
Also other grub themes work without needing to be rpms.
Enabling a theme by default breaks flicker-free boot: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlickerFreeBoot
okay this can also be a priority. But Especially on Kinoite it is very important (if it is supposed to be the "Grandma Laptop OS") that you can easily tell someone "if it doesnt work, use the version below".
Is the grub menu automatically shown if you enable a theme? Because if this is a different topic it is not that important.
The GRUB menu initializes a framebuffer when a theme is used and shows a message on screen, so it causes flickering, even if the menu isn't shown by default.
fair point, I guess there is no clear answer here. I personally think it should be nicely themed to round up the experience. But this can be done by the user without overrides too.
Metadata Update from @ngompa: - Issue assigned to ngompa
I'm going to investigate this and see whether we want to do anything here.
As discussed in the meeting... have a look at this
I tested it on a current install of Kinoite. The boot is so quick that it is really hard to press Esc at the right time.
Also UEFI takes way longer these days, than a short grub delay.
First thing I always to is disable grub autohide, and currently I am a bit confused on where to put the grub themes I use in the OSTree file system.
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