From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750920AbWDIVz1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:55:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750934AbWDIVz1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:55:27 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:31754 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897AbWDIVz1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:55:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 23:55:20 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/19] kconfig: recenter menuconfig Message-ID: <20060409215520.GD30208@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20060409212548.GA30208@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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