Aha, thanks! I never would have known this without being told - there is no visible indication that the symbol info pane exists at all until one tries to drag the lower right corner of the window notth-eastwards - is this meant to be somehow an intuitive thing to do these days to view more info ? I did manage to view the option documentation with nconfig / using emacs to view the KConf files (preferable). Really, it would be nice if xconfig had some 'View' Menu & one could select View -> Option Documentation or press <F1> over an option to view the documentation for it , and if the geometry of the different panes was correct at startup .- the whole Option value pane initially appears on the far right hand side, about 10 pixels wide , until resized ; and there really is no sign of the documentation pane at all until lower right-hand corner dragged. Also, in the Help -> Introduction panel, it says : "Toggling Show Debug Info under the Options menu will show the dependencies..." but there is no "Show Debug Info" option on the Options menu - sounds like it might be a useful feature - should I be seeing a "Show Debug Info" option ? why don't I see one ? Maybe the Options menu might be a good place to put an "Expand Option Documentation Pane" option ? Thanks anyway for the info. Regards, Jason On 11/10/2016, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [changed linux-config to linux-kbuild list] > > On 10/09/16 13:46, Jason Vas Dias wrote: >> Hi - >> I've been doing 'make xconfig' to configure the kernel for many years >> now, and >> always there used to be some option documentation pane populated with >> summary documentation for the specific option selected . >> But now, when built for Qt 5.7.0, (also tried Qt 4.8 and GTK) there >> is no option >> documentation pane - this is a real pain ! The option documentation also >> is not displayed with any other gui, eg. 'make menuconfig' / 'make >> gtkconfig' - >> I'm sure it used to be . This is a regression IMHO . >> How can I restore display of documentation for each selected option ? >> Will older xconfig work for Linux 4.8 ? it appears not ... >> Thanks in advance for any replies, >> Jason > > That's odd. I see the help info in all of xconfig, gconfig, menuconfig, & > nconfig. > > In xconfig, if the right hand side of the config window only lists some > kernel config > options and no symbol help/info, the symbol info portion may be hidden. Try > pointing > to the bottom of the right side of the window and hold down the left mouse > button > and then drag the mouse pointer upward to open the symbol info pane. > At least that is what works for me. > > -- > ~Randy > -- 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
