From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 3 8:23:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fep03-svc.tin.it (mta03-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A2814F05 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from winworkstation ([212.216.234.69]) by fep03-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19990303162323.MYQU26875.fep03-svc@winworkstation> for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:23:23 +0100 From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:31:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: menuconfig References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990303162323.MYQU26875.fep03-svc@winworkstation> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 2 things you'll need to take into account for usablity: > > for users: the ability to suck in a local config file > And an help system. Something that helps you when you don't know what to choose. Not just a raw help, but more an help assistant. The concept is: the developer writes a new feature in the kernel. He must provide the help file which describes that feature, and with the appropriate format, that file will plugged in the configuration assistant in 5 minutes. Ciao Ciao Paolo Di Francesco _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message