I tried menuet first time a little time ago. I love idea of OS designed for FASM coding, but i didnt like that menuet cannot be controlled with keyboard. Most coders can use kbd pretty quickly, much faster than mouse. So i think you should add some common controls which will support kbd.

I thought about this a bit. Although the kernel provides direct support for mouse clicking on buttons, keyboard control is fully available for user applications - so it's really down to the application designer. I guess I'm not alone in designing small simple apps, which means not catering for all possible user interaction options.

Maybe there is a case for adding to the kernel a way to indicate that a button has the current focus... but this sounds very windows like.

I would always argue that we should be careful not to put too much application space code into the kernel, but maybe there is a case for some kind of 'focus' indication on buttons.

What do people think?

Mike.

p.s. As a guide to my opinion, the DHCP code is going into user space - I'm only adding about 300 bytes to the kernel to support broadcast packets in the stack.