Re: GnomeFontSelector

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:

> Sander Vesik wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > 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 see two conflicting threads here:
> >         a) we want the terminal to be acessible to people who need to work
> >            in an environment that requires i18n, inc. non-latin-x
> >         b) we want the terminal to be acceible to people who can't access
> >            non-accessible (as in 'lacks acessability technology support')
> >            terminals
> 
> I don't see these threads as conflicting, just complementary.
> 

But the optimal and easiest way of getting there is - in case a) you want
to start librarifing xterm in case b) you want to start with libzvt. 

Just look at what you and Havoc have been saying 8-)

> - Bill
> 

	Sander

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