From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 21:28:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481E0E76.3060900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080504071041.GA15315@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On 04-05-08 09:10, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Today we have two ways to express/solve dependencies.
>
> Top-down we have "depends on"
> and bottom up we have "select".
>
> The "depends on" dependencies at the same
> time impact the visibility of a symbol.
> A symbol with "depends on" not satisfied are not
> visible and thus not shown in menuconfig.
I've always really disliked the visibility thing. I believe it's not really
the core issue here but regardless of anything else, could we not "grey out"
non-selectable options with its helpt text still available? That's much more
the standard UI paradigm.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-04 7:10 kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-04 8:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-04 8:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-04 9:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-04 10:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-04 11:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-04 12:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-04 12:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-04 12:37 ` Oleg Verych
2008-05-04 10:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-05-04 17:59 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2008-05-04 12:55 ` David Collier-Brown
2008-05-04 15:01 ` Oleg Verych
2008-05-04 19:28 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-04 19:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-06 8:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-06 15:52 ` Oleg Verych
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