Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:13:38 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A plea or sanity in port options menu Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902021302230.37428@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20090202141835.b44d09be.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20090202141835.b44d09be.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Bill Moran wrote: > How about: > > Options for port-fu > [ ] BRG Bernstein Riggs Guillotine parsing > [X] QFZ Quantum Freeze Zulu rending > > At least that one gives me _some_ idea what those TLAs mean. There was talk some time ago of having extended descriptions. Several ideas, but the one that made the most sense to me would be a box at the bottom that would display a description as you moved through the options: [.] BRG [X] QFZ Bernstein Riggs Guillotine parsing with the . representing the cursor/highlight position. Move down and the bottom line would change to say "Quantum Freeze Zulu rending". The nice thing about the box at the bottom is it would give a full line or possibly several lines for explanations. Seems like it could be added without breaking the existing system with an optional OPTIONS_DESC variable that would correspond with OPTIONS. I don't really know how hard that would be; ideas are cheap, implementation more costly. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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