Re: Ideas for the future

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

On 05.03.2012 02:35, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:30:11 +0100, a écrit :
>>> 6) menuentry --enabled 0|1
>>> It's a good practice to show menuentries even if they are not applicable
>>> in different situations (that's common for all major menu systems). If a
>>> menu entry is disabled, it is shown but it is not operable. E.g. one
>>> might have a general grub config file which supports booting a bunch of
>>> ISO images. When an ISO image is not found and instead of not showing a
>>> menuentry for that, those menuentry could be shown as disabled.
>> This seems like just cluttering the view. Remember that in some applications
>> (e.g. braille) menu has to be very concise. We support even the tiny (40x1)
>> terminal geometries.
> Actually, 40x1 is relatively large for a braille device. A lot of them
> are 20x1.
20x1 works as well. The bare minimum is 5x1 (we need 4 positions to 
indicate that there are more entries or more chars in the entry).
For less than 20x1  4 special positions become wasteful and the code 
should probably check those explicitly.
Is less than 20x1 common?
> Samuel
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko