On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 21:35, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Sean Middleditch"> > > > Ah, these I am unaware of... the only things I've heard him refuse to > > implement are the "weird" features like separate viewports/workspaces... > > We don't need separate viewports and workspaces - we need a good combination > of the features of the two (the separate definition is mere semantics). This > has been discussed over and over again - please talk about the behaviours, > not the names of these features.
I was just saying what I heard people bitch about him not implementing; I'm quite happy with how Metacity works in this regard now, and never even understand Sawfish's separated model... ~,^ > > > > It's quite clear that my needs don't matter to him, and based on the > > > reaction I get to requests for these features (many of which used to be in > > > G1D), I would gather not many other people outside of Sun do either. > > > > Sorry, outside of Sun? > > (Sun is the primary driver of a11y work in GNOME.) Ah, I see. Righty. > > > Gnome-terminal does indeed suck very badly, but there appears to be a new > > terminal widget in the works, which may fix your problems, once it's > > released. I know the current widget (zvt or whatever its called) gives me > > no end of head-aches... > > VTE is a lot better in terms of fonts, a11y, i18n, etc. but performance is > an issue at the moment. It's tentatively planned as the widget we'll use in > 2.2. VTE, OK. Is there a way I can play with this in Debian yet, besides using CVS? (/me hates installing things any way other than with dpkg - makes the file system messy). > > - Jeff > > -- > "Science helps a lot, but people built perfectly good brick walls long > before they knew why cement works." - Alan Cox > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
