FYI: Debian and Ubuntu have already dropped libvte 2.90 (tarball 0.36). They only ship the ancient gtk2 version (tarball 0.28), as well as 2.91 for gtk3 (tarball 0.38 or newer).
Neither the gtk2 version, nor 2.90 is maintained anymore by upstream. Bugfixes / security fixes / improvements only go to the newest tarballs (library version 2.91). The first version with the new API was released almost 2 years ago. I have myself ported a vte-based terminal emulator (whose codebase I was not familiar with), it took maybe like 2-3 hours, can't remember, but definitely not much more. So I guess it's high time port geany to the newest vte. (I don't think parallel support for 2.90 and 2.91 makes any sense, just go for 2.91 and forget 2.90 for good). A note about `vte_terminal_set_background_image_file()`: Indeed direct support for background image has been removed; however, see the Terminix project how a picture can be drawn behind a transparent/translucent VTE using some GTK+ magic. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/336#issuecomment-240840936
