From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
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: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:01:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51480D5A.7010705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130315175655.GC1271@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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On 15.03.2013 18:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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).
GRUB doesn't use floats at all as it would decrease compatibility and
brings nothing useful to us.
>
> Could even have start_angle_gradians
>
This would be featuritus
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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
2013-03-19 7:01 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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
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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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