Die old UI, die!!! ;-)

A lot of stuff has happened recently. Time to blog about them!

Firstly, the Kubuntu Grub Configuration Module has been assigned to me, since KGRUBEditor can be easily converted into a SystemSettings module.

Since, there has been some interest lately about it, seele created some new wireframes. You may check the full specification here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KubuntuGrubconfig

So after many, many changes we have come up with this result:

So, no more colors in the list, the default is now even easier to change (and more eye-pleasant of course ;-), bla bla bla and of course bla bla bla. For those of you who didn't understand my excellent English, check the images above.

Lastly, what I am currently working on is improving internal stuff (the core class was rewritten for even much performance - who the heck would even want performance in a GRUB editor?!?) and the most interesting of all: the application [will] no longer need to be started as root (a.k.a. use su/sudo). If a file is not readable/writable the application will politely ask for the password using the following dialog:

The password needs to be entered only once of course. Then all operations will complete successfully as if the application was running as root. Neat, or what?

Hmm, did I miss something? No. OK. Till my next blogpost.

PS: The OperatingSystem TM was randomly selected to preview. Hopefully, I will be more careful of what I preview in the future :)