Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:02:52 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: [TRIVIAL] kill annoying submenus in fs/Kconfig |
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> [rddunlap@osdl.org] > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:55:44 +0200 Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> wrote: > > | Patch against -bk3. > > Let me begin by saying that I find the menu arrangement (both before > and after this patch) highly subjective.
I guess so.
> I.e., there's not necessarily a right or wrong. (RR:) > I.e., in the absence of further input, some maintainer can decide. :) > > Given the above: > I prefer short menus. I find them more readable, with less clutter. > So I don't mind them the way that they currently are. > > OTOH, I don't care strongly either way. I think that we should > care more about how non-developers use and see 'make *config' > than how kernel developers use and see it.
I can't see why we need to categorize ~50 (that is _two_ 80x25 screenfuls) filesystems into 7 or so submenus. The going back and forth in menuconfig just to check if NFS and proc are enabled for a basic config is highly annoying IMHO. The categorization itself is a nice idea, though.
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