From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Widening terminal coordinates, and reading terminal size.
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:22:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410071122.21554.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87brff97lv.fsf@marco.marco-g.com>
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 17:41, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > grub_getsize is ambiguous (size of what?) and grub_getgeometry
> > suggests a function to get the geometry of a GUI window,
> > grub_get_term_size is better. What do you think?
>
> How about getdimensions? That is the term that is used in the Hurd.
I don't like getdimensions, since dimensions can be read as the number
of axes. I vote for grub_getgeometry. Since GRUB does not have a window
system, I don't think it is ambiguous.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-07 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-06 2:29 [patch] Widening terminal coordinates, and reading terminal size Timothy Baldwin
2004-10-06 8:55 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-06 15:18 ` Timothy Baldwin
2004-10-06 15:41 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-06 21:50 ` Timothy Baldwin
2004-10-06 22:38 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-07 9:22 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-10-09 11:03 ` Timothy Baldwin
2004-10-09 18:21 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-08 13:07 ` Marco Gerards
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