Re: [PATCH 3/3] menuconfig: reclaim vertical space

[Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 8:43 PM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Menuconfig has lots of vertical space wasted: on my system there are
> 17 lines of useful information about config options and 14 lines of
> useless fluff: legend, horizontal separators and shadows.
>
> Sitation is even worse on smaller terminals because fixed vertical
> lines do not go away, but config option lines do, further decreasing
> informational density. Minimum reasonable 80×24 text console has only
> 10(!) lines of menus presented which is less than half of the screen.



I think nconfig is a better fit for your system.


In my understanding, the concept of menuconfig
is to use a similar appearance to the 'dialog' tool
although we have largely modified the code.




>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
> index 5eb67c04821f..dc608914c636 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c
> @@ -183,14 +183,14 @@ int dialog_menu(const char *title, const char *prompt,
>         if (height < MENUBOX_HEIGTH_MIN || width < MENUBOX_WIDTH_MIN)
>                 return -ERRDISPLAYTOOSMALL;
>
> -       height -= 4;
> +       height -= 2;
>         menu_height = height - 10;
>
>         max_choice = MIN(menu_height, item_count());
>
>         /* center dialog box on screen */
> -       x = (getmaxx(stdscr) - width) / 2;
> -       y = (getmaxy(stdscr) - height) / 2;
> +       x = 0;
> +       y = 2;
>
>         dialog = newwin(height, width, y, x);
>         keypad(dialog, TRUE);
> --
> 2.39.2
>


You missed to adjust dialog_textbox().


(1) Run 'make menuconfig'
(2) Press < Help > button to show help message
(3) Press < Exit > button to get back


When you do (2) and (3), please make sure
the size of the grey window is not changed.

This is how the current menuconfig works.



I want to leave the blue frame.
My personal preference is

  height -= 3;
  width -= 2;



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada