Re: GnomeFontSelector

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 09:54, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes: 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think it's any different from zvt. What you would do with
> xterm in essence is make it a library, that you feed keyboard events
> which it uses to maintain terminal state, and it can draw a region of
> the terminal scroll area to an X drawable. You would then use that lib
> to implement a GTK-based terminal widget.
> 
> But it doesn't work unless you get the xterm librarification patch
> upstream into xterm, so we don't have to maintain the thing. ;-)

this doesn't seem like much of a short term solution, as in it will be a
long time before this lib would be available everywhere (hp-ux comes to
my mind, naturally).

jacob
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