chop down long menulists

[walter harms]

Denys Vlasenko schrieb:
> On Thursday 20 November 2008 18:03, walter harms wrote:
>> hi list,
>> i had some trouble finding some specific item in the bb menu structure.
>> the problem was simply the last entries where outside my terminal.
>> that means they are way to long.
> 
> I do not understand. Where exactly were you trying to find
> something - in menu interface created by "make menuconfig"?

yes, i think some entries are overcrowded. lines vanish outside the
screen, not nice. Even in the linux kernel interface they try to have no
pages larger than the main page.
therefor i made an attempt for an alternative layout, so we could start
a discussion but beside Bernhard (who disliked the "new" layout) no one was
interested. Consequently i stopped here.

In my last mail i wrote why (IMHO) we need a change. In short: oddly long lists
of applets are no help. People using a GUI do not expect the need to scroll (or search).

re,
 wh