From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270685AbTG0Grm (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270686AbTG0Grm (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:47:42 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:39645 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270685AbTG0Grl (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:47:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:02:52 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] kill annoying submenus in fs/Kconfig Message-ID: <20030727070252.GD17724@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030726195544.GA16160@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030726200903.73d17418.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030726200903.73d17418.rddunlap@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [rddunlap@osdl.org] > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:55:44 +0200 Tomas Szepe 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. -- Tomas Szepe