Re: [PATCH 3/3] [kconfig] Direct use of lxdialog routines by menuconfig

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 12/12/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> 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 <pasky@suse.cz>

I just gave it a very quick spin and I like it. Very nice.

It's definately a lot snappier, nice work.

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