Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:57:18 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] [kconfig] Direct use of lxdialog routines by menuconfig |
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On 12/12/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote: > After three years, the zombie walks again! This patch (against the latest > git tree) cleans up interaction between kconfig's mconf (menuconfig > frontend) and lxdialog. Its commandline interface disappears in this patch, > instead a .so is packed from the lxdialog objects and the relevant > functions are called directly from mconf. > > In practice, this means that drawing on the screen is done with _MUCH_ > less overhead now, the screen updates are better optimalized as ncurses > won't get reset everytime you display something, that also implies that > the ugly screen flickering is done. As a cute side-effect, the dialogs > are now rendered on the top of the menu or help panel. In the future, > this also gives us much more freedom for enhancing the user interface. > > This opens space for plenty of cleanups of liblxdialog, removal of > superfluous stuff and temporary files usage, etc. > > Compared to the previous version (from February 2003), this one should be > less buggy (especially wrt. the escape character handling), should not > crash while resizing and the resizing should have immediate effect > (although things can still start looking ugly when you are resizing while > not in a menu - to fix that properly, more liblxdialog integration is > required). Also, the code is considerably simplified on few places. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
I just gave it a very quick spin and I like it. Very nice.
It's definately a lot snappier, nice work.
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