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From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [3/4] [PATCH] start angle (option of circular_progress) is measured in unusual quantities
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:56:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130315175655.GC1271@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130315205208.43080e84@opensuse.site>

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:52:08PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:52:13 +0400
> Vladimir Testov <vladimir.testov@rosalab.ru> пишет:
> 
> > In current state, start angle is measured in "parrots", where 1 "parrot" = 1 / 
> > 256 of full circle.
> > 
> > With simple patch we can set start angle in degrees (which makes no difference 
> > for the program, but makes configuration to be more user-friendly)
> > 
> 
> This has compatibility issue and probably cannot be done without
> introducing theme file format version.
> 
> What about adding new parameter name instead (although start_angle_angle
> looks rather silly)?

start_angle_degrees?

Could have start_angle_radians too (although it would need floating
point to be useful).

Could even have start_angle_gradians

-- 
Len Sorensen


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-15 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 10:52 [3/4] [PATCH] start angle (option of circular_progress) is measured in unusual quantities Vladimir Testov
2013-03-15 16:52 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-03-15 17:56   ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2013-03-19  7:01     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-03-19  7:00   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-03-19  6:57 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-04-11 15:48 ` Vladimir Testov
2013-04-11 15:56   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-04-11 16:00   ` Vladimir Testov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-12  7:27 Vladimir Testov
2013-04-19 14:16 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-04-23 10:22   ` Vladimir Testov

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