[syslinux] RFD: Internationalizing the menu system
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 22 09:53:31 PST 2008
BuraphaLinux Server wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here are my ideas. Maybe it is all bad, but you did ask....
>
> Our distribution is for Thai, and would very much like to have the
> ability to display Thai. The ability to display pre-rendered pictures
> would be fine. Instead of having a set size, why not just let the
> picture specify the width and height in pixels of each menu item?
That would be a massive pain from an overall structure perspective,
especially trying to maintain compatibility with a serial console.
Sorry, I really DO NOT want to bite off this particular issue.
> The superos.pic would have embedded in it the height and width of the
> graphic. I guess having a .png or whatever decoder is too much for
> the system, but like now you have the tool to embed data in the
> background image, you can have a converter from .png or whatever to
> your .pic format you need. Even 16 colors indexed would be enough I
> think to make nice text.
I already have a PNG decoder, that's not the issue.
"16 colors indexed" is actually quite a bit. A serious question is if
anything more than a bitmap (with a possible highlight color for the
hotkeys) is needed, e.g. greyscale for antialiasing.
-hpa
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