From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7Nn-0005di-CO for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7Nl-0005dC-EG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7Nk-0005cj-Go for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45470 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7Nk-0005cd-24 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:28 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:2688) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr7Nj-0003BM-J6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:27 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so762044fge.12 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:46:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=76PdqkXhkgToFH7V145KCbPJNdwUTyhC8r23sLjshTM=; b=PhLWFmQACZRxyHiJyAdXHTikkKXl/O4vHPd3gTHqwNTQDiZPjqAJodcf1wzb29s5dK fVP3Cy4mDaEO0gClB0SdJP7D6eXzSGJ4jjSOMzZJtxSHQcA7GOBlGX08sbdriV/xk6Tb nBtm7I0EdaWA6OnqFdeUU69qcCTitODbKwiIA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=x6/442pOfPhxK7Xl6gCCQzd9zELZXhr2J6e1/wZCvvI31QqQIZ4SP1+c2yBJN31xvF plGHfJqktva4xY5NJLK0rfZCopJijqlXUfz+vM2VTI8xV1nbNEIhRdb5xSLhaOnjS4Tv 3R3ZNQZ+G1CIMeJYYeou3OaBydo5HSVt5Xqlo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: hramrach@gmail.com Received: by 10.86.251.40 with SMTP id y40mr774890fgh.57.1253871986670; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:46:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:46:26 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 33349806de64ac4a Message-ID: From: Michal Suchanek To: The development of GRUB 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:46:30 -0000 2009/9/25 Bean : > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Michal Suchanek wr= ote: >> 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 =3D 1 > one column > > max_columns =3D 1000 =C2=A0(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? Thanks Michal