Boris or Thiago, Any comments, suggestions, or patches about this? thanks. On 10/15/16 04:09, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > 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 -- ~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
