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-1/6/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.3</p>
+1/26/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6</p>
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like to add detection for Itanium and ARM systems, but I have no
way to test such changes.</li>
- <li>The code could be more flexible in its handling of the sizes of
- various graphical elements, and particularly drawn text. Prior to
- version 0.2.2, submenu text was invisible on UEFI-based PCs with
- 800x600 and smaller displays because of an inability to properly
- crop the graphics fields that hold the text. With version 0.2.2,
- I've put a band-aid on this problem by reducing the field size so
- that it now works on 800x600 displays, but smaller displays still
- suffer from this problem. This is just an example of the
- inflexibility of certain layout issues within rEFInd.</li>
-
<li>Although the ICNS file format used by rEFInd supports multiple
image sizes, if a size that rEFInd needs isn't present in the file,
rEFInd can't use the icon. The ability to scale images to the
desired size would be useful.</li>
+ <li>A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming
+ purposes.</li>
+
+ <li>The program's font features could be greatly improved by enabling
+ use of a standard font format, by enabling use of non-ASCII
+ characters, and by enabling use of variable-width as well as
+ monospace fonts.</li>
+
<li>I would like to be able to specify the volume on which a boot
loader resides using a partition GUID value, but extracting a GUID
from the partition data is harder than extracting the volume's
substitutes the size, so you get displays like <tt>boot
EFI\foo\bar.efi from 90 GiB volume</tt>. I'd like to add more
checks to substitute the GPT <i>partition</i> label if the
- <i>filesystem</i> label comes up empty, or add a filesystem type
- identifier to the size.</li>
-
- <li>The default_selection option in refind.conf could be improved by
- supporting a list of default options, so that if the first item
- isn't found, rEFInd will try to boot the second one in the list,
- and so on. This could be handy in case a driver fails to load, or
- to provide an override in case the user inserts a specific
+ <i>filesystem</i> label comes up empty.</li>
+
+ <li>The <tt>default_selection</tt> option in <tt>refind.conf</tt> could
+ be improved by supporting a list of default options, so that if the
+ first item isn't found, rEFInd will try to boot the second one in
+ the list, and so on. This could be handy in case a driver fails to
+ load, or to provide an override in case the user inserts a specific
removable disk—by placing the removable disk's name first in
the list, it will take precedence over the normal hard disk
default.</li>
loader settings—say, to disable one specific boot loader or
change its icon.</li>
- <li>A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming
- purposes.</li>
-
- <li>Going further, the ability to load arbitrary other fonts, ideally
- in a standard format, would be desirable for theming purposes.</li>
-
<li>A GUI configuration tool would be nice, but it's low on my personal
priority list. If you'd like to contribute, I prefer something
written in a cross-platform GUI toolkit, so that a single code base