On Sunday 2009-12-13 08:23, Nir Tzachar wrote: >On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I gave nconfig a try, and here are a few suggestive points: > >10x ;) Ten times what? >> - provide the same color scheme as menuconfig > >As far as colrs are involved, I think it is best to not impose any >color scheme. You can never satisfy everyone, and will get into >endless fights about which is best. Well, menuconfig seems to have had the least fights. There was exactly one color scheme imposed, and that did not change for years; when themes were added, not much happened. There was a bit of discussion and submissions about themes (including myself), but in the end, it was sort-of agreed upon that four were enough. And they seem to work for everybody. >I believe the current approach in nconfig works best, as I am using >the default terminal colors for the main body of text (menus, help >text, etc), and only use colors for emphasis (headings, boxes, etc). No sorry. Black-on-blue does not work very much, for the physical fact that blue is recognized as faint. Let me put in some numbers (30,59,11% are the common RGB weighting for grayscale/luminance) Blue: Effective Lum: - xterm standard (#0000EE): 26.18 - VGA standard (#0000AA): 18.70 Cyan: - VGA (#00AAAA) 119.00 So you see why Midnight Commander, htop, etc. all use Black-on-Cyan for their Fn keybar instead of Blue. >This is based on the belief that users have already chosen the colors >which work best for them, and are already using them in their teminal's >config. > >> - I get a visual glitch (see Exhibit A below) in General setup (patch >> slapped onto 2.6.32); the left frame part is missing. > >I cannot reproduce this. Can you provide some more details? (e.g., >which terminal, $LINES, $COLUMNS, $TERM) xterm -bg black -fg gray -geometry 80x25 >> - I certainly like F4-Config-ShowAll :) but it has some glitches >> interfering near ARCH_DEFCONFIG (see Exhibit B). > >Thanks for catching this. It is a by-product of the code for >presenting everything inside a single menu. Easily fixed in the next >version. By the way, is anyone using this option at all? It would much >simplify the code if I did not have to support the one giant menu >option. Well nconfig is the first to provide that option. (Note: I don't use gconfig or xconfig, so I cannot tell if they have something like that.) So to see whether there is use, you would have to wait a number of kernel releases that have nconfig integrated. -- 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
