Hi Sam. > > Hi Nir. > > I have used nconfig for a while now and I prefer it over menuconfig. > nconfig tries to be a clone of menuconfig in meny respects failing > to address some of the shortcomings. > > Some of the caveats I have with nconfig (and with menuconfig): > > - We have the buttons in the bottom of the sceen. > What I would like to see is that the "<Select>" button are removed. > And then you use some other way to indicate if a menu line is > selected or one of the other buttons are selected. > You will need to rethink arrow navigation a little.. This is easier said than done.... You need some kind of tabbing behaviour between the main menu and the button menu. I think it would just become more cumbersome this way. I'm open for better suggestions though. > - When I enter 2nd level I would like two possibilities: > <Back> and <Exit> > <Exit> would bring me to the save dialog (if anything had changed) > <Back> would bring me up one level I agree. This is a good idea. > - Do not try to be so 'intelligent' with hotkeys. They are _always_ the first letter > in the menu line and be done with that. > Lines that start with "M" then does not have any hotkey - they must live with that However, there are more letters than 'M': N (for No), Y (for Yes), Q (for quit), H (for Help), i,j,k,l (for navigation). This leaves many menu items without a hotkey, which I think would not be convenient. > - The help dialog need an "OK" button or a "Close" button so I know that > I can select it to get out again. This can easily be achieved by placing a highlighted text with 'Close' on the bottom, and exiting the dialog when the user presses 'Enter' > - The save dialog is broken. I cannot use the ESC ESC option and that was > a hack anyway. > If I press "ESC" then I should be back at nconfig. > I would expect the save dialog to have three choises: > "Close without saving" > "Cancel" > "Save" Ok, will be fixed. > Have you looked at xconfig and considered if any of the features of > xconfig would be useful in nconfig? > See debug stuff, etc...? I'll see if I can incorporate the debug option. Maybe by adding a configuration dialog?? > My thinking is that we should try to make nconfig the default for menuconfig > at least in -next. Then we will see some comments... > But try if you can improve the above points first. Sure. I hope to have a new version in a few days. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
