Re: lynx-dev reordered Options

[Leonid Pauzner]

31-Mar-2000 16:53 Klaus Weide wrote:
> Here's my draft of how a reorganized Froms Based Options Screen would
> appear.

Sorry, I read this thread only now. I think this layout definitely
better than the current version and should be adopted.

The only thing I note is that Cookies option is not (are not) saved
which looks rather strange (as far as I can remember, some options are
saved into lynx.rc and some are not - should be fixed IMO).


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>                    Options Menu (Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.18++)

>      Accept Changes - Reset Changes Left Arrow cancels changes [1]HELP!

>                          Save options to disk: [_]
>                 (options marked with (!) will not be saved)

>   General Preferences
>   User mode                        : [Advanced....]
>   Cookies (!)                      : [ask user..]
>   Searching type                   : [Case insensitive]

>   Keyboard Input
>   Keypad mode                      : [Links are numbered................]
>   Emacs keys                       : [OFF]
>   VI keys                          : [OFF]
>   Line edit style                  : [Bash-like Bindings]
>   Keyboard layout                  : [YAWERTY Cyrillic, for DEC LK201 kbd]
>   Editor                           : 
> __________________________________________

>   Display and Character Sets
>   Display character set            : [Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)..........]
>   Assumed document character set(!): [iso-8859-1......]
>   Raw 8-bit (!)                    : [OFF]
>   Messages Locale (!)              : 
> __________________________________________
>   X Display (!)                    : 
> __________________________________________

>   Document Appearance
>   Show color                       : [ON....]
>   Show cursor                      : [OFF]
>   Popups for select fields         : [ON.]
>   HTML error recovery (!)          : [strict (SortaSGML mode)]
>   Show images (!)                  : [as labels]
>   Verbose images                   : [OFF..........]

>   Headers transferred to servers
>   Personal mail address            : 
> __________________________________________
>   Preferred document character set : _________________________________
>   Preferred document language      : _________________________________
>   User-Agent header (!)            : 
> __________________________________________

>   Listing and Accessing Files
>   FTP sort criteria                : [By Name]
>   Local directory sort criteria    : [Mixed style......]
>   Show dot files                   : [ON.]
>   Execution links                  : [FOR LOCAL FILES ONLY]

>   Special Files and Screens
>   Multi-bookmarks                  : [ADVANCED]
>   Review/edit Bookmarks files      : [2]Goto multi-bookmark menu
>   Visited Pages                    : [As Visit Tree..........]

>   Check your [3]lynx.cfg here

>          Accept Changes - Reset Changes Left Arrow cancels changes

> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Notes:
> Message Locale doesn't exist yet (it's something I am experimenting
> with), so just ignore it.

> Most important options should come first.
> "User mode" is _the_ most important one.  Every Novice user should
> sooner or later graduate to changind to Advanced.  This should be in
> a prominet place.
> This is strictly a reordering and re-titling of existing options,
> theo options themselves are left unchanged.  Not that they are ideal,
> but not now.
> Basic input & output ("Keyboard" and "Display") are most important
> to set up as needed, before it makes sense to customize the finer
> points.  So those sections come first.
> Lynx is a Web browser/HTTP client/HTML renderer primarily and a way
> to access local files only secondarily (for most people), so
> "Headers ..." comes before "Listing ... Files".
> "Special Files" comes last because, uhm, they're special situations.

> Comments?

>   Klaus