On 7/17/06, Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:00 +0100, ext Ross Burton wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:08 +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > > I think we should really look what iconv() and _pthread_once() do, > > > or get completely rid of iconv(). Currently it's needed for: > > > - Converting window titles from utf8 to latin1 > > > - Converting png comment fields (containing hotspot etc info) > > > from latin1 to utf8 > > > - Doing filesystem file name conversions from/to latin1 > > > > > > > > > Update: In IT-2006 software the need for iconv() is removed. > > > > How do you remove iconv from the (say) window title utf-8 to latin1? > > Did you implement a very simple converter (an almost-identity array > > would be a quick and easy solution) inside GTK? If so then I'd be > > interested to see that upstreamed. > > By commenting out all legacy WM hints handling :) I mean really, > _NET_WM_NAME is now how old? In our case it makes absolutely no sense to > use WM_NAME et. al., not sure it makes sense even on the GNOME desktop > these days. And that's all it takes to drag in iconv. That and png > comments. > > See the attached patch[1]. I'd give a viewcvs link but our viewcvs is > apparently down. >
If you change it to detect if the currently running window manager supports _NET_WM_NAME, we may even do something like this upstream. _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
