[syslinux] Menu system bug - MENU DEFAULT not working

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Thu Oct 11 13:49:09 PDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 20:04 +0200, Ady wrote:
> I kept thinking about SUBmenus, even after Matt's comment that his 
> patch would affect not just MENU GOTO but all MENU DEFAULT behavior 
> regarding SUBmenus.
> 
> But then I started to think about the PARENT menu behavior. When 
> going back from a submenu to its parent menu using [ESC], the current 
> behavior (as of 4.06pre12) is already expected by users. To be 
> consistent, the behavior going up to the parent menu shouldn't be 
> changed.

Exactly. You've hit the nail on the head. People will rely on this
behaviour. We can't regress.

> I don't have the knowledge to test the patch alone, so I'll have to 
> wait for another prerelease so to confirm if this is the case or not.

-pre13 will be out in the next hour or so.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center




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