Re: Call for I18N testers gnome-terminal/zvt + I18N patches

[Cristiano De Michele <demichel na infn it>]

HideToshi,
I can only say I'll apply your patches to MGT 2.0.0
I'm working on, 
					regards Cristiano
 

> Hi, I18N-ers,
> 
> I'd like to call for volunteers to test I18N patches of Zvt terminal
> widgets for gnome-terminal, although
> no real reward can be expected, but you can save the current sad
> situation that there is no working
> I18N terminal emulator in Gnome2(.0.x) desktop environment.
> 
> Objective of this is to get the patches merged into the stable branch
> for 2.0.2. Wide user testing
> is hard requirement to make it happen, while there is only have 4-6
> weeks 2.0.2 freeze.
> 
> 
> About changes in the Zvt I18N Patches:
> 
>    1. Zvt uses Gtk Input Methods API to do i18n text input. It does it
>       in "over-the-spot" fashion in multi-byte locales.
>    2. It internally uses Unicode to handld line buffer, and converts it
>       with locale string when the text is input from/output to the apps
>       running on the terminal emulator, using glib's g_io_channel and
>       g_convert.
>    3. It uses Pango to get font description - and then create XFontSet
>       from it(see below).
>    4. It does not use PangoLayout for drawing text on terminal emulator
>       window, but use Xlib functions XmbDrawString and
>       XmbDrawImageString directly - and perhaps I would add #ifdef
>       HAS_XFT stuffs for Xft,( and #ifdef ST/XST case sometime soon.)
>    5. It shows much better performance in the 'ls -R /' test case
>       Micheal Meeks pointed out with VTE a few days ago.
>    6. It always draws characters in mono-spaced fashion - drawing one
>       character at a time, "filling" space to the next character so that
>       the width of each character looks always same in single-byte
>       locales, and in multi-byte locales the width of single-byte
>       character and that of multi-byte character is always 1:2.
>    7. It has been tested by G11N QA team in CJK locales in Solaris8, 9,
>       10, using locale profterm build on HEAD + plus a local patch to
>       enable Pango Font instead of X fonts.
> 
> To obtain, build and run:
> 
> You can get I18N-ed libzvt from the libzvt-i18n branch, instead of the
> HEAD. Then, build profterm on the
> HEAD with a patch attached to this mail. This is to choose pango font
> names in font selection preference,
> instead of XLFD names currently used.
> 
> The patched gnome-terminal and Zvt has been tested on Solaris 8 and 9 in
> many locales including Western
> and Eastern Europe, CJK and Unicode, and has proved that it's working
> pretty stable without any reported
> crashes. But, honestly, it is not tested enough on Linux or any other
> Unix systems, so testing on these
> platforms are highly demanded and very welcome.
> 
> And not to mention, there are a few known issues:
> 
>    1. bold fonts are not supported yet.
>    2. Code conversion errors between UTF-8 and locale multibyte string
>       happens a bit often.
>    3. still slow :-/
> 
> Yep, there should be more room of performance improvement. Evaluation
> and suggestion for this is extremely
> welcome, too.
> 
> Finally again, if you are kind to be volunteers, I really really
> appreciate!!
> 
> Regards,
> Toshi
> ----
> 

> ? stamp-h1
> ? help/C/gnome-terminal-C.omf.out
> Index: ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/profterm/ChangeLog,v
> retrieving revision 1.211.2.2
> diff -u -r1.211.2.2 ChangeLog
> --- ChangeLog	2002/07/14 20:58:01	1.211.2.2
> +++ ChangeLog	2002/08/02 02:55:54
> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> +Mon Jul 29 14:51:07 2002  HideToshi Tajima  <hidetoshi tajima sun com>
> +
> +	* src/terminal-widget-zvt.c (terminal_widget_supports_pango_fonts,
> +	terminal_widget_set_pango_font):
> +	use pango fonts instead of x fonts
> +
>  2002-07-14  Jordi Mallach  <jordi sindominio net>
>  
>  	* configure.in (ALL_LINGUAS): add ca (Catalan).
> Index: src/terminal-widget-zvt.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/profterm/src/terminal-widget-zvt.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -r1.7 terminal-widget-zvt.c
> --- src/terminal-widget-zvt.c	2002/06/02 14:44:21	1.7
> +++ src/terminal-widget-zvt.c	2002/08/02 02:55:58
> @@ -1097,11 +1097,12 @@
>  terminal_widget_set_pango_font (GtkWidget                  *widget,
>                                  const PangoFontDescription *font_desc)
>  {
> -  ; /* does nothing */
> +  g_return_if_fail (font_desc != NULL);
> +  zvt_term_set_pango_font (ZVT_TERM (widget), font_desc);
>  }
>  
>  gboolean
>  terminal_widget_supports_pango_fonts (void)
>  {
> -  return FALSE;
> +  return TRUE;
>  }
-- 
  Cristiano De Michele,
  Department of Physics,
  University "Federico II" of Naples