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Originally Posted by anthonyb
Hi PoP
I recently upgraded to your build 20110408 and I notice when running htop that the column alignment is a bit out for some rows (tabs not expanding correctly?). I'm wondering if this has something to do with the change from a 8px wide font to 6px wide and if some additional code somewhere needs changing, or is this a bug in htop?
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Interesting. An easy way to find out would be to compare your htop screen under my version and under Luigi's original version.
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Originally Posted by anthonyb
You asked for suggestions to declutter the help block. Since this area is static I'm thinking it could be improved by replacing the block of help text with a bitmap image. A very much nicer help image could be created this way and then the bitmap painted onto the display with pix_blt() instead of outputting it as text. What do you think?
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That would be nice and would certainly help. Another approach could be to refresh the text-only help block as each modifier key is pressed, such as to only display the glyphs available when *that* modifier key pressed. Or perhaps more ambitiously, popping a virtual keyboard and selecting keys by navigating glyphs with the five-way button.
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Originally Posted by anthonyb
As soon as I have the chance to get a toolchain setup I'll start making some changes myself. I'm thinking of including both fonts and having the rows, columns and font configurable either via a config file or the command line. I'd also like to add a special key combination (or a signal handler) to tell kiterm to reload the config file and change the layout in real time. So the user can just press some keys or perhaps issue kill -WINCH 'myts' (or USR1 or HUP) to switch to full screen for example. For full screen mode I'd add a key combination to toggle the help on or off. Just some ideas...
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Since you are thinking to change the screen capabilities on-the-fly, maybe can you consider adapting the lines*columns according to the device being in portrait or landscape. Also, if you implement a pop-up help, the terminal could always remain in full screen mode gaining back the 10 lines presently consumed by the help block. I'll look forward to your improvements.