Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] kconfig/lxdialog: color theme support

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Jul 28 2006 - 12:41:25 EST


On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:29:05PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> > Second iteration of the patchset to add color theme support to lxdialog.
> > This patchset allow the menuconfig user to select between a number of
> > different color themes for menuconfig:
> > blackbg, classic, mono and bluetitle
>
> Ain't nobody say the kernel lacks customization!
>
> It would have been nice to do the following,
>
> diff --fast -Ndpru -x '*.cmd' lxdialog~/util.c lxdialog/util.c
> --- lxdialog~/util.c 2006-07-28 16:37:28.499577000 +0200
> +++ lxdialog/util.c 2006-07-28 16:52:09.929577000 +0200
> @@ -63,6 +63,42 @@ do { \
> dlg.dialog.hl = (h); \
> } while (0)
>
> +static void set_classiciv_theme(void)
> +{
> + dlg = (const struct dialog_info){
> + .screen = {0, COLOR_CYAN, COLOR_BLUE, true},
> + .shadow = {0, COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_BLACK, true},
> ...
> + .uarrow = {0, COLOR_GREEN, COLOR_WHITE, true},
> + .darrow = {0, COLOR_GREEN, COLOR_WHITE, true},
> + };
> + return;
> +}
>
> Which uses a nice memcpy call rather than tons of MOVs (assembler insns).
> Unfortuantely it truncates ->title.

Current schme allows us to have a grand master theme that can be default
and then justified as needed - like in the 'bluetitle' case.

And for this purposes this is all about readability and not code-speed.

Sam
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