vte maintenance [was Re: Speed improvement of gnome-terminal]

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

man, 18,.10.2004 kl. 08.08 +0100, skrev Ross Burton:
> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 23:58 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 00:23 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > > Mark Gordon writes:
> > > 
> > > > Agreed, but do you really need 60 screens per second?
> > > 
> > > Maybe not, but when I do less /var/log/messages PGUP, that takes about
> > > 1 second in gnome-terminal.  IWBN if PGUP felt more instantaneous,
> > > about four or five keystrokes (PGUPs) per second is a valid wish?
> > 
> > Interesting. That's instantaneous on my machine - mind that's a 2.5 GHz
> > processor which will tend to mask performance problems.
> 
> Looks like the long-standing vte bug which results in pageup taking far
> longer than page down to redraw.  Some distributions have applied
> various hacks around the problem, and I'm not sure if G2.8 (still G2.6
> on this machine) finally fixed it.
> 
Speaking of long-standing vte bugs. We have a ton of patches in bugzilla
that need review and some have been sitting there over a year with no
comment. Is anyone going to step up and maintain this module? We haven't
had a release since april and it's a bad situation for translators too
since that means no new translations have been released.

Cheers
Kjartan