Re: GnomeFontSelector
- From: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>, Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>, Anders Carlsson <andersca gnu org>, George <jirka 5z com>, gnome-2-0-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GnomeFontSelector
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:59:06 +0100
Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> > On 09Oct2001 11:02PM (-0400), Michael Meeks wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] - gnome-terminal cannot be effectively pangoized.
> > >
> >
> > Is there a fundamental technical reason for this, or is it just that
> > it would be hard to restructure the code?
>
> All the Pango layout, cursor handling, etc. algorithms are
> inappropriate. Terminals have to do special funky stuff. Basically
> Pango isn't designed for this at all.
>
> If we wanted a terminal with UTF-8 support we'd want to look at what
> xterm does and try to use that code.
I'm not sure that we can effectively go that route, without a lot of
addon code, since we need full accessibility features for
gnome-terminal. Most likely AtkEditableText, AtkText, and possibly
AtkTable.
Without an accessible terminal we are pretty much doomed to be
effectively "inaccessible".
So what is happenning with libzvt2? I know there is work going on on
that library, and supposedly it was the vehicle for fully
internationalized gnome-terminal support.
-Bill
> Havoc
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-2-0-list mailing list
> gnome-2-0-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-0-list
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]