Re: [PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: delete shadows, reclaim vertical space

[Randy Dunlap]

On 3/4/23 10:54, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 09:56:08AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 3/4/23 08:55, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> Menuconfig has lots of vertical space wasted: on my system there are
>>> 17 lines of useful information about config options and 14 lines of
>>> useless fluff: legend, horizontal separators and shadows.
>>>
>>> Sitation is even worse on smaller terminals because fixed vertical lines
>>> do not go away, but config option lines do decreasing informational
>>> density even more.
>>>
>>> Delete shadows and increase menu size to reclaim vertical space.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c |    2 --
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h    |    1 -
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.c  |    2 --
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c   |    6 ++----
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.c   |    2 --
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c      |   22 ----------------------
>>>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.c     |    2 --
>>>  7 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> This patch works for me, but since the right side shadow is
>> also being removed, the one column (width) that it had
>> occupied might as well be used (reclaimed) instead of just
>> going to waste.
> 
> Horizontal space is not really important because monitors are wider
> than taller and our config option descriptions are quite short.

Yeah, but there is no reason not to reclaim the one horizontal column.
This does it for me: (lightly tested)

diff -- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ do_resize:
 		return -ERRDISPLAYTOOSMALL;
 
 	height -= 2;
-	width  -= 5;
+	width  -= 4;
 	menu_height = height - 10;
 

We might also be able to reduce the length of menu_instructions[]
and put more of it into the other Help text if that interests you.

-- 
~Randy