Re: gnome-terminal

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

On 11 Oct 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> For GNOME-2.0, I don't see an alternative to fixing up libzvt as best,
> porting to GTK+-2.0, and maybe hacking in some accessibility support
> if that is easy. The timescale is too short, and anything else is a
> major project. We'll just have to keep telling people to use xterm
> when gnome-terminal misbehaves.

        Sure - I was just slightly concerned that people might get
somewhat grandiose and time consuming ideas about using xterm for Gnome
2.0 - but it seems we're all in agreement.

> But long term, we either need to rewrite, carefully this time, or we
> need to take advantage of an existing maintained code base.

        Yes.

                Michael.

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