Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:17:08 +0100
From:   Boris Barbulovski <bbarbulovski@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@...el.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: please, where has xconfig KConf option documentation gone with
 linux 4.8's Qt5 / Qt4 xconfig ?

hi Randy,

Frankly I don't have answer to your questions, but I did reproduced
the issues you described.

And found that:

* `Show Debug Info` menu item was(created, but) not added to the menu.
* if the `showDebug` setting was set to true, the the initial widgets
state will not be set correctly.

I did a patch of those issues fixed.

If you choose to keep the `showDebug` stuff in, you can checkout/test the patch.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> On 10/17/16 10:28, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Boris or Thiago,
>>
>> Any comments, suggestions, or patches about this?
>>
>> thanks.
>
> Hi Boris and Thiago,
>
> Other than you patch of Oct. 17 (which needs to be added to linux-kconfig for
> linux-next testing), the OP (Jason) mentioned that the xconfig "Help, Introduction"
> mentions a toggle called "Show Debug Info" but there is no such option under
> the Option menu.
>
> The qconf.cc source file does contain a boolean called _showDebug. How is it
> used?  It appears to only be settable by editing the .config/kernel.org/qconf.conf
> file:
> qconf\help\showDebug=false
> and changing that 'false' to 'true'. Doing that still does not show any debug options
> in the xconfig windows. What it appears to do is to highlight (via html) the kconfig
> keywords so that the user can click on them, but when I do that, nothing useful
> happens (they just disappear!).
>
> So the questions are basically:
>
> 1. should be Help/Introduction text be cleaned up so that it does not refer to
> Show Debug Options? or should that toggle be reinstated?
>
> 2. how is /showDebug used? should it be documented? should it be fixed?
> should it be deleted?
>
> Thanks.
>
>> On 10/15/16 04:09, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>>>  Aha, thanks! I never would have known this without being told -
>>>  there is no visible indication that the symbol info pane exists
>>>  at all until one tries to drag the lower right corner of the window
>>>  notth-eastwards - is this meant to be somehow an intuitive thing to
>>>  do these days to view more info ?
>>>
>>>  I did manage to view the option documentation with nconfig  /
>>>  using emacs to view the KConf files (preferable).
>>>
>>>  Really, it would be nice if xconfig had some 'View' Menu & one could select
>>>  View -> Option Documentation  or press <F1> over an option to view the
>>>  documentation for it , and if the geometry of the different panes was
>>> correct at
>>>  startup .- the whole Option value pane initially appears on the far right hand
>>>  side, about 10 pixels wide , until resized ; and there really is no sign of the
>>>  documentation pane at all until lower right-hand corner dragged.
>>>
>>>  Also, in the Help -> Introduction panel, it says :
>>>    "Toggling Show Debug Info under the Options menu will show the
>>> dependencies..."
>>>  but there is no "Show Debug Info" option on the Options menu - sounds like
>>>  it might be a useful feature - should I be seeing a "Show Debug Info" option ?
>>>  why don't I see one ?  Maybe the Options menu might be a good place to put
>>>  an "Expand Option Documentation Pane" option ?
>>>
>>> Thanks anyway for the info.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/10/2016, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
>>>> [changed linux-config to linux-kbuild list]
>>>>
>>>> On 10/09/16 13:46, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>>>>> Hi -
>>>>> I've been doing 'make xconfig'  to configure the kernel for many years
>>>>> now, and
>>>>> always there used to be some option documentation pane populated with
>>>>> summary documentation for the specific option selected .
>>>>> But now,  when built for Qt 5.7.0, (also tried Qt 4.8 and GTK) there
>>>>> is no option
>>>>> documentation pane - this is a real pain !  The option documentation also
>>>>> is not displayed with any other gui, eg.  'make menuconfig' / 'make
>>>>> gtkconfig' -
>>>>> I'm sure it used to be . This is a regression IMHO .
>>>>> How can I restore display of documentation for each selected option ?
>>>>> Will older xconfig work for Linux 4.8 ? it appears not ...
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any replies,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>
>>>> That's odd. I see the help info in all of xconfig, gconfig, menuconfig, &
>>>> nconfig.
>>>>
>>>> In xconfig, if the right hand side of the config window only lists some
>>>> kernel config
>>>> options and no symbol help/info, the symbol info portion may be hidden. Try
>>>> pointing
>>>> to the bottom of the right side of the window and hold down the left mouse
>>>> button
>>>> and then drag the mouse pointer upward to open the symbol info pane.
>>>> At least that is what works for me.
>
>
> --
> ~Randy



-- 
Boris Barbulovski
http://mkfusion.bokicsoft.com/

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