CML2 1.1.6, aka "I think I should have stayed in bed this morning."

CML2 1.1.6, aka "I think I should have stayed in bed this morning."

[Eric S. Raymond]

The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/

Release 1.1.6: Tue Apr 17 17:34:05 EDT 2001
	* Steven Cole caught a buggy baton.

Another hour, another error report...
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CML2 1.1.5, more comments

[Anton Altaparmakov]

Hi,

A few comments on cml2 1.1.5 running on my Pentium 133S (make menuconfig, 
fastmode):

- Instantaneous moving up/down! Excellent!

- Thanks for dark blue! The cyan was barely readable. Now all the colours 
are nicely readable. I don't necessarily like your choice of colours but as 
long as I can read the text, that's fine.

- When I set something to yes it goes green. When I then set something else 
to yes the new one goes green, too, but the old one also remains green. Is 
this intended? (i.e. does green mean "already visited" or something like 
that?) Also, on the CPU selection menu, it started off with two of the CPUs 
already in green (but only one with a yes). Is that a feature or a bug?

- Moving left/right can still be quite painfully slow...

- Setting options is sometimes very slow, sometimes ok... (depends on 
complexity of underlying rules I guess)

It is definitely usable now compared to 1.1.0. But if the last two points 
could be speeded up, it would be great.

Best regards,

         Anton


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Re: CML2 1.1.5, more comments

[Eric S. Raymond]

Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>:
> A few comments on cml2 1.1.5 running on my Pentium 133S (make menuconfig, 
> fastmode):
> 
> - Instantaneous moving up/down! Excellent!

A consequence of getting the incremental-refresh logic right.
 
> - Thanks for dark blue! The cyan was barely readable. Now all the colours 
> are nicely readable. I don't necessarily like your choice of colours but as 
> long as I can read the text, that's fine.

It's a difficult balancing act.  A lot of the people asking for color changes
aren't aware of some of the constraints -- one of them being that 12% of the 
male population has red-green color blindness.  Blue turns out to be about the
only color that people with any form of color blindness can recognize.

> - When I set something to yes it goes green. When I then set something else 
> to yes the new one goes green, too, but the old one also remains green. Is 
> this intended? (i.e. does green mean "already visited" or something like 
> that?) Also, on the CPU selection menu, it started off with two of the CPUs 
> already in green (but only one with a yes). Is that a feature or a bug?

That's right. Green means "visited or set".

> - Moving left/right can still be quite painfully slow...

I know.  The basic problem here is that the configurator has to recalculate
visibilities for every item in the new nenu.  I have some ideas for speed-
tuning this.

> - Setting options is sometimes very slow, sometimes ok... (depends on 
> complexity of underlying rules I guess)

Yes.  There is at least one more major speedup I may be able to get out
of this.
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