On Friday, 31 August 2007 at 17:40, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > currently I have two ideas (well, one from #mutt) for UI enhancements and > like to ask for input. > > 1) mutt_multi_choice() is currently used to let the user choose from quite a > number of possible options. To fit in 80x25 they're abbreviated which > obviously doesn't look nice. I've put together a patch that adds a dialog > and puts it in a curses subwindow like so: > > <http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pdmef/tmp/mutt1.tiff> > <http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pdmef/tmp/mutt2.tiff> > > The first with $ascii_chars set, the second unset. > > 2) When interactively entering 'attachments ?' it'll end curses, print the > current attachments settings to stdout and re-enter curses. This doesn't > look very nice. Furthermore, if a user has more settings than fit on the > screen he'll miss some. I've a simple patch that adds a paging menu > triggered by the new 'show' keyword, e.g. 'show attachments', 'show config' > could be useful to get the values of many options where the ':set ?foo' > syntax doesn't help much. The new menu supports searching and scrolling. > > If there's interest in these ideas, I'll polish the patches up for > publishing and send them to the list. They both sound useful to me.
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