On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:17 +0700, Ross Golder wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:43 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > >122150 gnome-termnal 2.4.0.1 won't "redraw" text lines properly- > >redrawing is broken and has been for a long time. Given that vte is > >defacto unmaintained, and there is a patch that has been tested for a > >while now in gentoo, this just needs someone to commit and roll a new > >tarball. > > > > Perhaps you could give 'vte' a mention on gnome-love as a project > needing a maintainer? A terminal emulation widget sounds like a pretty > cool bit of software to work on to me. I love terminals and terminal > emulation. If I had enough time, I'd take it on myself. There's bound to > be other people out there that are into terminal emulators that are > willing to check in a few patches and roll the odd tarball every now and > then. >
Keep in mind that VTE could be a _lot_ worse. It basically works and doesn't distract any of the OS vendors by making them _have_ to spend a lot of time on it right now. i.e. it doesn't have showstoppers. Lots of stuff that could be improved sure, but not showstoppers (other than perhaps the 1 that's on the list). So any J Random Enthusiastic Person may not be a plus. Getting some basic patch review on the patches that really matter, we should definitely support someone who wanted to do that. But it's really easy to take a terminal codebase off into the land of incredibly bad ideas if you don't know what you're doing. Just a bit of caution. I think it's easy to assume that every codebase needs to be "moving forward" and I'm saying there is a legitimate case for "maintenance mode" when other stuff is higher priority. As soon as you touch something, it becomes a bit of a timesink because you're creating new bugs and behaviors. Of course, if we do get J Random Enthusiastic and they do screw up we can always ship an old release tag of VTE, so I guess there's no genuine danger other than hurt feelings. Havoc _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
