Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:47:24 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: CML2 0.7.1 is available |
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esr@thyrsus.com wrote: > ... > > 5. You said that you expect the curses interface to be the most-used > > one and I agree with you. The tkinter interface, in its present > > form, is very klunky (a highly technical term, of course). > > I can go into details and examples if needed. > > Please. I went to some lengths to try to make it nice; if I failed, I'd > like to know why. > --
Since we have already established that I downloaded python from a python.org (1.52) mirror instead of from a distribution, I don't know how much this (still) applies, but here are my comments on the tk interface (and then curses interface) of cmlconfigure anyway. Some of these items may be out of your control (at least without a lot of extra work), but they are generally unfriendly and a nuisance IMO.
tk interface ----------------------------------- 1. The initial/opening box (window) size cuts a menu line in half.
2. If I enlarge the main/primary box size and then go to a sub-menu and return to the main menu, it's back to its original (fixed) size, not to the size that I changed it to. And the main menu is (currently) small enough to fit on one screen window, without using any scrolling/ slider bar, so I should be able/allowed to do that if I (any user) want to.
3. From the main menu, if I slide the slider bar down so that I can see File Systems, click on File Systems, click Back to the main menu, the portion of the main menu that is displayed is only the top N lines of it, and does not include File Systems. If I'm configuring in the area of Character Devices and File Systems, I have to move the slider down to that part of the main menu so that I can click on them over and over again. Instead, when I click on Back, the same lines of the parent menu should be displayed that were displayed when I entered the sub-menu.
4. I don't know what causes this, but sometimes I can click to a sub-menu and then (a) can't adjust its size, (b) can't move its box, and (c) it's title line (at top of the box) is no longer highlighted, even after I click on it. I can still successfully click on File, Navigation, and Help. For some reason, selecting the USB Support menu has caused this 2 times now.
curses interface ----------------------------------- 1. In a long menu (longer than fits into one xterm screen of any size), after changing the value of a config option, the list is (apparently) redrawn, beginning and ending wherever cmlconfigure wants to begin and end. It would be "the right thing" to leave the beginning and ending displayed lines as they were before the option was changed instead of them jumping around at will.
Also, with the patches that I sent to you earlier today, I'm ready to "certify" that the USB subsystem is working as expected.
~Randy
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