2009/9/25 Bean <bean12...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >> 2009/9/25 Bean <bean12...@gmail.com>: >>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> >>> wrote: >>>> If I understand it correctly this means that a panel is a bunch of >>>> cells which are laid out horizontally and at some random point (but at >>>> most after max_columns cells) a row break is inserted and the later >>>> cells start in a new row. >>>> >>>> I would prefer a more deterministic approach: the panel is either one >>>> column or one row (vertical or horizontal). >>>> This should cover the common cases, real tables are seldom needed. >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> But max_columns can cover both case, >>> >>> max_columns = 1 >>> one column >>> >>> max_columns = 1000 (or any big number) >>> one row, we could also use special number -1 to indicate infinite >>> number of widgets. >>> >> >> OK, it does but it is quite confusing way of achieving that. >> >> What do the other possible values give you, though? >> >> If I set max_colums to 3 then I get rows of 1-3 cells, >> non-deterministically. I can't say in what row or column a particular >> cell will be. Is such layout useful for anything? > > Hi, > > If max_columns = 3, then every row has three widgets, except for the > last one, which can have 1 or 2 widgets. We can draw n * 3 tables with > it. >
Then it should perhaps be called simply columns. However, if you start with tables people will start with why doesn't this have colspan/rowspan. And I really can't imagine using tables in the boot menu. What for? Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel