Re: GnomeFontSelector

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes: 
> Havoc: remind me again of why libzvt is not good enough?  I know it does
> not support UTF-8, but are there other big issues with it?  

It is good enough for 2.0. You'll want to go with it for now.

The issues I know of are:
 - the redrawing has glitches, it will leave "dirt" and also fail to
   redraw from time to time
 - it has bugs in the terminal emulation, so that some curses apps 
   especially do not work correctly. also for example multi-line 
   bash command editing seems broken.
 - the i18n is entirely broken (without some bad-hack patches in our 
   RPMs), and even with those patches there is no UTF-8 support

But these are all just symptoms of the larger issue that no one is
babysitting it or working on it.

> Since it's been ported to GTK+-2 and is already modular I think it would
> likely be an easier target for accessibility, based on a quick
> examination, unless it is really fundamentally insufficient for other
> reasons... at least for 2.0.

I agree with that, I didn't really mean to suggest otherwise. I am
just still hoping we can get a terminal widget that has a babysitter,
handles UTF-8, and does all the terminal emulation properly.

Havoc