Hi Jens! Thanks for the input! On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:49:19PM +0100, Jens Bech Madsen wrote: > There are a number of reasons why I continue to use tinyfugue instead of > gnome-mud in spite of how attractive python scripting sounds to me: > > * I can't find a font which looks as good as whatever font is default > in Debian's regular xterms. I prefer black background and grey text for > my mud windows, and all fonts look bad and are hard to read when they > are anti-aliased. I've tried to disable the anti-aliasing in my > fonts.conf but it still looks bad. This is not something I can fault > gnome-mud for, but it's still a major problem for me. Hmmm. I think this is unavoidable, because the virtual terminal widget can't fall back to the old fonts. Have you tried bistream-vera-sans-mono? It looks very well here. > * I can't include settings from one profile into another. I have the > settings common to all my characters in a seperate file so I don't have > to duplicate aliases, triggers and substitutions into the settings files > for the individual characters. See > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117238 Yeah, there's a lot of room for improvement here... > * Since I am not a developer I don't really want to run cvs versions. > But the crashers I reported in July are fixed in a tarball release in > November. That's four months. Granted I didn't supply a backtrace for > one of them until September, but it is still a very long time to wait > for crasher fixers. That's why I'm proposing a clal for help. We don't have manpower to fix stuff, even the most serious issues. > For the next release it might be useful to make some actual plugins to > show people what can be done. I know there are some examples in the help > files, but a live example is a lot more powerful than code listings. > > I don't use very advanced features when I play so I don't really know > what features could be implemented. Logging of lines to seperate > windows, maybe, for catching tells, chats etc. Logging in general would > be useful. I prefer to log all my mud sessions. TF lets me save each > session to a file which is named after the session with a timestamp in > the name. Good for looking up things later. > > Another feature which I absolutely love in tinyfugue is the way it can > page output. If I receive more than a screenfull of text from the mud > without entering a command, the output stops and is displayed a > screenfull at a time when I press TAB. It is very useful for an idling > wizard :-) Again, these ideas are very nice, and I'd love if G-M supported them, but right now, there's nobody working on them, so I wouldn't expect them soon. It's all about lack of developers investing some time on gnome-mud. Robin, are you raeding? Do you agree with calling for help? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi sindominio net jordi debian org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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