Re: menu loop (patch)

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:31:55 +0200
Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Jul/19/2008, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> > Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> >> 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)
> >
> > GTK menubar-menus are looping for me.  But I'm not sure about menus
> > that consist of selecting from a list in a box (maybe some login
> > window?).  I don't care personally, because my GRUB-lists are not
> > terribly long... hmm, if you hold down a (arrow) key in GRUB, is
> > there auto-repeat?
> 
> no, there isn't auto-repeat (this is what the patch that we are
> talking does).

I think Isaac means: is there key-repeat functionality, and the answer
is yes; the BIOS int 16h key functions supply the key auto-repeat
functionality.  You are talking about "looping" around the menu when an
attempt is made to go past the beginning or end.

Regards,
Colin