Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2009-11-10

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:19 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 11/10/2009 04:45 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > 4. text-buffer 3.0 request (jessevdk)
> > - split TextView: single TextBuffer driving two TextView widgets
> > - there are problems with selection and cursor handling
> > - move some things from the TextBuffer to the TextView, like the
> >    new EntryBuffer in gtk+ 2.18 does
> > - worth supporting, targeting 3.0 - might cause deprecations
> >    during the 2.19/2.20 cycle
> 
> I'm not sure what this is about exactly.  But something that I thought about 
> working on vte (and specifically, thinking about breaking vte into model/view) 
> is, if GtkTextBuffer and GtkTextView where proper interfaces, VteTerminal and 
> VteTerminalView could implement them.  In fact, VteTerminalView could be 
> implemented only if GtkTextView was too slow for us.  This could give us lots 
> of neat stuff I imagine.

The maintenance on GtkTextView over the last 5+ years has been very
slight ... (150 open bugs at the moment)

I'd rather see someone pick that up rather starting on ambitious
rewrites.

- Owen