Re: [PATCH 3/19] kconfig: recenter menuconfig

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:46:00PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > With this change when window width is > 80 then we waste half of
> > the screen width only to right-indent the menus.
> 
> Currently we waste a lot of screen on right side, which is not much 
> different.
Thats normal behaviour vi does the same for this text.

> Further there is now a mix of left aligned and centered output, 
> which is ugly
So we should fix the rest too instead of reintroducing the old
behaviour.

> 
> > We truncate longer prompts and with this we require twice the
> > width to see full prompt.
> 
> If these longer prompts don't fit into a 80 coloumn window, it's a bug.

Try to add three directories somewhere deep to "Initramfs source file(s)".
Thats where I have been hit by the limitation today.

	Sam