From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/19] kconfig: recenter menuconfig
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 23:55:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060409215520.GD30208@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604092341130.32445@scrub.home>
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:46:00PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > With this change when window width is > 80 then we waste half of
> > the screen width only to right-indent the menus.
>
> Currently we waste a lot of screen on right side, which is not much
> different.
Thats normal behaviour vi does the same for this text.
> Further there is now a mix of left aligned and centered output,
> which is ugly
So we should fix the rest too instead of reintroducing the old
behaviour.
>
> > We truncate longer prompts and with this we require twice the
> > width to see full prompt.
>
> If these longer prompts don't fit into a 80 coloumn window, it's a bug.
Try to add three directories somewhere deep to "Initramfs source file(s)".
Thats where I have been hit by the limitation today.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-09 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-09 15:27 [PATCH 3/19] kconfig: recenter menuconfig Roman Zippel
2006-04-09 21:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-09 21:46 ` Roman Zippel
2006-04-09 21:55 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-04-09 22:10 ` Roman Zippel
2006-04-09 23:31 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-04-09 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-10 0:33 ` Randy.Dunlap
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