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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: nconfig v7
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> >As far as colrs are involved, I think it is best to not impose any
> >color scheme. You can never satisfy everyone, and will get into
> >endless fights about which is best.
> 
> Well, menuconfig seems to have had the least fights. There was exactly 
> one color scheme imposed, and that did not change for years; when themes 
> were added, not much happened. There was a bit of discussion and 
> submissions about themes (including myself), but in the end, it was 
> sort-of agreed upon that four were enough. And they seem to work for 
> everybody.
I also would like the current (menuconfig) defautl color scheme to be used.

> >Thanks for catching this. It is a by-product of the code for
> >presenting everything inside a single menu. Easily fixed in the next
> >version. By the way, is anyone using this option at all? It would much
> >simplify the code if I did not have to support the one giant menu
> >option.
> 
> Well nconfig is the first to provide that option. (Note: I don't use 
> gconfig or xconfig, so I cannot tell if they have something like that.)
> So to see whether there is use, you would have to wait a number of 
> kernel releases that have nconfig integrated.

We already have:
Optional personality available                                        
  . ------------------------------                                     
  . If you prefer to have all of the kernel options listed in a single  
  . menu, rather than the default multimenu hierarchy, run the menuconfig
  . with MENUCONFIG_MODE environment variable set to single_menu. Example:
  .                                                                   
  . make MENUCONFIG_MODE=single_menu menuconfig                        
  .                                                                     
  . <Enter> will then unroll the appropriate category, or enfold it if it
  . is already unrolled.                                                                                                               
  . Note that this mode can eventually be a little more CPU expensive
  . (especially with a larger number of unrolled categories) than the
  . default mode.          

But I do not think it is much used.

	Sam
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