On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:08:55AM -0700, J G wrote:
> ** Multi-tab support
> ** Run time changeable per-tab titles / backgrounds / colors.
> ** Session support for each tab
> ** Input broadcasting to all tabs
> ** Customizable keyboard shortcuts
> ** Translucency and pseudo transparency support
> ** JPEG / PNG / XPM background support
> ** Off-focus background fading
> ** Xft support.
> ? Text shadow
> ? Menubar / popup menus
> ** XIM and multi-language (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) support.
> ? Five different scroll bar styles
> ** Small and fast.
> ** Does not depend on GTK / Qt / Gnome / KDE.
> ** Available on multiple platforms.
> ** utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging
If I were to restart active development today, there are possibly a few
differences I would make:
1. Our transparency is "fake transparency". Xorg has evolved
considerably since we started out, and it would be good to get
the "real" transparency (based on a compositor and XDamage) done
correctly (i.e. background should be transparent and updated if a
window behind changes; but the font should remain opaque).
2. I'm happy to ditch text shadow completely.
3. I'm happy to ditch 3 out of 5 scrollbars. (I personally don't use
a scrollbar myself.)
4. I'm happy to either ditch the menus completely, or make them
dependent on a toolkit (e.g. Gtk). This would make the menus
easier to write and would allow mrxvt to be installed without a
toolkit for the minimalists.
> And new features would be utf8, better copy & paste support.
I second this :).
GI
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