linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: menuconfig: Make hidden options show as dim

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:05:33 +0900
From: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Jesse Taube <Mr.Bossman075@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: menuconfig: Make hidden options show as dim

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 1:10 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 2:46 PM Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > When hidden options are toggled on (using 'z'), the number of options
> > on the screen can be overwhelming and may make it hard to distinguish
> > between available and hidden ones. Make them easier to distinguish by
> > displaying the hidden one as dim (using the A_DIM curses attribute).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
>
>
>
> Do you think this is useful?
>
> This changes the color only when you select a hidden item.
>
>
> For unselected items, you cannot distinguish hidden ones,
> as A_DIM has no effect to black text.
>
>

Hmm, are you sure about that? For me it seems to dim the text. it
seems to be also used in the existing code for dlg.button_inactive.atr
of the mono theme:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c#L26

Best regards,
Tomasz