Re: CML2 1.1.5, more comments

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:58:02 -0400


Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>:
> A few comments on cml2 1.1.5 running on my Pentium 133S (make menuconfig,
> fastmode):
>
> - Instantaneous moving up/down! Excellent!

A consequence of getting the incremental-refresh logic right.

> - Thanks for dark blue! The cyan was barely readable. Now all the colours
> are nicely readable. I don't necessarily like your choice of colours but as
> long as I can read the text, that's fine.

It's a difficult balancing act. A lot of the people asking for color changes
aren't aware of some of the constraints -- one of them being that 12% of the
male population has red-green color blindness. Blue turns out to be about the
only color that people with any form of color blindness can recognize.

> - When I set something to yes it goes green. When I then set something else
> to yes the new one goes green, too, but the old one also remains green. Is
> this intended? (i.e. does green mean "already visited" or something like
> that?) Also, on the CPU selection menu, it started off with two of the CPUs
> already in green (but only one with a yes). Is that a feature or a bug?

That's right. Green means "visited or set".

> - Moving left/right can still be quite painfully slow...

I know. The basic problem here is that the configurator has to recalculate
visibilities for every item in the new nenu. I have some ideas for speed-
tuning this.

> - Setting options is sometimes very slow, sometimes ok... (depends on
> complexity of underlying rules I guess)

Yes. There is at least one more major speedup I may be able to get out
of this.

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