any chances for some last minute vte changes, or atleast something to consider

[Jon Nettleton]

sorry guys this went to the wrong list.  I will move it over to the
dev one.  I am a bit distracted by the Sox World Series game.  ;-)


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:41:10 -0400, Jon Nettleton
<jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have all dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly of
> gnome-terminal/vte.  Don't get me wrong, it has been my terminal of
> choice as long as I have run redhat/fedora.  The speed output has
> always been an issue for me, but it wasn't until recently that the
> tabbed redraw problem became apparent to me.  I always switch my
> terminal to a black background with grey fonts, so it wasn't until I
> started rolling my customized fedora core 2 desktop out to my
> coworkers that the multi-tab black background bug was ever a factor.
> 
> The speed issue was addresed in the patch attached to this bugzilla,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132770 , which I
> have found fantastic.  Without the mad skills of this excellent
> programmer I addressed the lesser of  the two evils, the tabbed black
> background bug.  My debugging led to a less elegant, but harmless and
> effective solution with a patch attached to this bug,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100420 .
> 
> Between the two patches I now have a gnome-terminal that just works
> how I want it, and how I assume everyone would like it to.  These have
> been nagging bugs for quite some time.  I know getting changes into
> vte at the gnome level has been slow, any chance of use addressing the
> issues at a distribution level?
> 
> -Jon
>