Re: GnomeFontSelector

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> > Hmm, I still think doing this with zvt makes more 'gnome-sense'.
> 
> What, in a "GNOME traditionally has an unmaintained terminal widget"
> kind of way? ;-) Using xterm in library form to do a terminal widget
> would give you results that were just as "gnome-integrated" in the
> end.
> 
> xterm has several maintainers that work on it, they have a test suite
> for the terminal emulation, they have people doing the i18n work.
> 
> zvt has any number of small incompatibilities with xterm, it has
> redraw bugs, the i18n is broken, and no one has shown any signs of
> fixing it in the last year or two.
> 
> Not that the contrast matters, since no one is working on librarifying
> xterm, any more than anyone is working on zvt.
> 
> For the record, I'd be happy if someone fixed zvt, just as much as
> someone doing the xterm work. Whatever the person doing the work wants
> to do. ;-) But we definitely need some kind of work.

OK, I will check with the Sun i18n team again and see what they are up
to in this area, maybe I can persuade them to put some resources into
either librarification of xterm or into fixing zvt.

-Bill

> I just mention xterm because if I were doing the work I would do it
> that way. I spent some time evaluating how much work there was and how
> I would go about it. (Sadly the end conclusion was that I don't have
> time.)
> 
> Havoc