On 11/01/16 05:17, Boris Barbulovski wrote: > hi Randy, > > Frankly I don't have answer to your questions, but I did reproduced > the issues you described. > > And found that: > > * `Show Debug Info` menu item was(created, but) not added to the menu. > * if the `showDebug` setting was set to true, the the initial widgets > state will not be set correctly. > > I did a patch of those issues fixed. > > If you choose to keep the `showDebug` stuff in, you can checkout/test the > patch.
Your patch works ... but I don't find the Show Debug Info option to be useful, so I would just remove it completely. anyone else have views on this? thanks. > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote: >> On 10/17/16 10:28, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> Boris or Thiago, >>> >>> Any comments, suggestions, or patches about this? >>> >>> thanks. >> >> Hi Boris and Thiago, >> >> Other than you patch of Oct. 17 (which needs to be added to linux-kconfig for >> linux-next testing), the OP (Jason) mentioned that the xconfig "Help, >> Introduction" >> mentions a toggle called "Show Debug Info" but there is no such option under >> the Option menu. >> >> The qconf.cc source file does contain a boolean called _showDebug. How is it >> used? It appears to only be settable by editing the >> .config/kernel.org/qconf.conf >> file: >> qconf\help\showDebug=false >> and changing that 'false' to 'true'. Doing that still does not show any >> debug options >> in the xconfig windows. What it appears to do is to highlight (via html) the >> kconfig >> keywords so that the user can click on them, but when I do that, nothing >> useful >> happens (they just disappear!). >> >> So the questions are basically: >> >> 1. should be Help/Introduction text be cleaned up so that it does not refer >> to >> Show Debug Options? or should that toggle be reinstated? >> >> 2. how is /showDebug used? should it be documented? should it be fixed? >> should it be deleted? >> >> Thanks. >> >>> On 10/15/16 04:09, Jason Vas Dias wrote: >>>> Aha, thanks! I never would have known this without being told - >>>> there is no visible indication that the symbol info pane exists >>>> at all until one tries to drag the lower right corner of the window >>>> notth-eastwards - is this meant to be somehow an intuitive thing to >>>> do these days to view more info ? >>>> >>>> I did manage to view the option documentation with nconfig / >>>> using emacs to view the KConf files (preferable). >>>> >>>> Really, it would be nice if xconfig had some 'View' Menu & one could >>>> select >>>> View -> Option Documentation or press <F1> over an option to view the >>>> documentation for it , and if the geometry of the different panes was >>>> correct at >>>> startup .- the whole Option value pane initially appears on the far right >>>> hand >>>> side, about 10 pixels wide , until resized ; and there really is no sign >>>> of the >>>> documentation pane at all until lower right-hand corner dragged. >>>> >>>> Also, in the Help -> Introduction panel, it says : >>>> "Toggling Show Debug Info under the Options menu will show the >>>> dependencies..." >>>> but there is no "Show Debug Info" option on the Options menu - sounds like >>>> it might be a useful feature - should I be seeing a "Show Debug Info" >>>> option ? >>>> why don't I see one ? Maybe the Options menu might be a good place to put >>>> an "Expand Option Documentation Pane" option ? >>>> >>>> Thanks anyway for the info. -- ~Randy
