On 12/12/05, Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just gave it a very quick spin and I like it. Very nice. It's definately a lot snappier, nice work. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
