Bug#820911: Accessibility for visual impaired is broken,, High-Contrast Theme is no longer activated by shortcut
Hello,
Holger Wansing, le mar. 01 janv. 2019 23:40:29 +0100, a ecrit:
> I wonder why this shouldn't be possible to solve ...
Essentially because it somehow got out of my radar and nobody else seems
to have cared about it.
> And appending "theme=dark" instead of "speakup.synth=soft" should be all that's
> needed to boot with high-contrast theme.
For that example, yes. I'm a bit worried by a potential
proliferation of shortcuts in the boot menu. In
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/01/msg00346.html we discussed
having shortcuts within the installer itself to change colors (which can
be more useful than just having a "dark" theme). Later on we discussed
how it could be made easier to append kernel parameters (pressing
tab was easy in syslinux, grub doesn't have such easy way yet) since
it's needed for various cases anyway. We can also as well just add a
dark-theme shortcut indeed. I guess 'c' as "contrast" could be a better
shortcut than 'v'? (speech and braille, using other shortcuts, are also
for visual impairement).
> I have played with the syslinux config for legacy BIOS mode, and as far as I
> can test, it works for the netboot-gtk image, see the patch attached plus some
> new files that need to be added (for debian-installer/build/boot/x86).
For syslinux it was relatively simple to get theme=dark appended to the
kernel line, it's more grub which needs to be given a shortcut.
> Like I said, other parts than netboot-gtk (for multi-arch CDs for example )
> are untested.
Yes, it takes some work to test all situations.
Samuel
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