Re: transparent terminals in danger!

[Mike Martin <redtuxxx yahoo co uk>]

 --- Luis Villa <louie ximian com> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at
05:39, Mike Martin wrote:
> >  --- Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote: > 
> > > Ian McKellar <ian mckellar org> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > I hate this feature with a passion, but I'm working on adding
> > > > translucency to the gnome2 panel (like I did for the gnome1
> > > panel). What
> > > > I have right now is a BackgroundMonitor object which monitors
> for
> > > > desktop image changes and emits a "changed" signal. Its got a
> > > call
> > > > called something like
> background_monitor_get_widget_background or
> > > > something that returns a gdkpixbuf of the desktop image
> > > underneath a
> > > > given widget. Perhaps we can share this code between the
> terminal
> > > and
> > > > the panel.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sounds good to me. (We should probably cram transparent panels
> into
> > > GNOME 2 before the 13th, just so Luis will hate us - I'm tired
> of
> > > posting to Gnotices about cool stuff and seeing the "that's
> nice,
> > > but
> > > are panels transparent?" comments ;-)
> > > 
> > > Havoc
> > 
> > Just curious - how many people are getting crashes - not seen any
> myself
> 
> Lots of people; at last glance it is far and away the most reported
> crash in GNOME2. And it is in the terminal, which... well, I'm
> thinking
> terminal crashing frequently would probably be a bad thing for our
> stability reputation :) 
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79413
> and
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75340
> 
> are the relevant bugs that I can think of off the top of my head ;)
> 
> Luis 

Just looked on bugzilla and your right about the number.

However on havocs punt list and the most important bug list
gnome-terminal doesn't figure.

As it doesnt happen to me and didnt appear on either these lists or
the list in general I didn't realise

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