Re: [PATCH 3/19] kconfig: recenter menuconfig

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Apr 09 2006 - 17:55:34 EST


On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:46:00PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > With this change when window width is > 80 then we waste half of
> > the screen width only to right-indent the menus.
>
> Currently we waste a lot of screen on right side, which is not much
> different.
Thats normal behaviour vi does the same for this text.

> Further there is now a mix of left aligned and centered output,
> which is ugly
So we should fix the rest too instead of reintroducing the old
behaviour.

>
> > We truncate longer prompts and with this we require twice the
> > width to see full prompt.
>
> If these longer prompts don't fit into a 80 coloumn window, it's a bug.

Try to add three directories somewhere deep to "Initramfs source file(s)".
Thats where I have been hit by the limitation today.

Sam
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