On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:18:24 -0700 Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With richtext you need to arrange your layout in sane ways, > > > that's the hard job. That's why I always told not bothering with > > > such stuff. A fixed-font widget suffices. > > > > That also depends on how much richtext we allow. > > If you want to stay sane, you want zero "richtext". > > > If we only allow as > > about much richtext as terminal emulators do, we don't need to > > rearrange too much to cope with that, I suppose. > > And your widgets will suck about as much as any terminal emulator. > > > > I thought terminals should die a bloody and painful death? That's at > > least what they should do in my opinion. They are too restricted and > > primitive in my eyes, and they make any sane text handling a mess. > > (How many terminal emulators do you know that, for example, break > > text correctly on resize?) > > That is because they don't handle text, they handle "richtext", I > specially love it how cat-ing a binary file sends any typewriter > emulator flying to outer space in a thousand pieces, got to love reset > (1) (when it works.)
I'm not going to write a terminal emulator. That's not my primary intent in anything I do. I bet you got your appartment is full of crazy-coloured wallpapers from the 70ies, as you seem to be stuck in the middle age of computing. Denis
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