From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIV0-00089o-Ov for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:53:46 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIUz-00089A-0x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:53:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIUx-00088y-8A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:53:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52888 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIUx-00088v-3l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:53:43 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:52614) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKIUw-00056N-Mw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:53:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KKIPM-0004lC-Ke for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:47:57 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KKIU7-0002q2-Ee for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:52:51 +0200 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:52:51 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080719195251.GA10533@thorin> References: <20080717212227.GA11725@pina.cat> <20080719154043.GG23778@thorin> <20080719172134.GA3760@pina.cat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080719172134.GA3760@pina.cat> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: menu loop (patch) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:53:45 -0000 On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 07:21:34PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is intentional. Size is not important in this > > part of the code, but in other UI menus (e.g. Iceweasel or GNOME) I > > fast check in KDE: it's looping > > Also, Iceweasel menus are looping here (maybe because it's executed > in KDE and there is some GTK Widget with a different behaviour? I have > no idea) I think it depends on the type of menu. Iceweasel's stored password list doesn't loop, but pull-down menus do. I'm not sure if there's a rationale for this.. > > notice this is not done. It could also be a nuissance for users who > > want to go rapidly to the top or bottom (sure, they can use PgUp/PgDn, > > but then aren't we making the behaviour of those keys inconsistent > > with arrows?). > > I would be glad to add some functionality for PgUp/PgDown and also for > Home/End keys (I would do it today evening or tomorrow and send the > patch). Actually, I just noticed we don't handle any of these. Don't worry about that. > > Also, if you (or anyone) can point to a "usability best practices" > > reference saying this has been carefuly analized and one of the > > options was found to be better, I think this would help us make a > > decision. > > I will also check tonight. Good! -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)