Public bug reported: Currently Utopic has vte-0.36 (from Gnome 3.12) and gnome-terminal-3.6 (from Gnome 3.6).
Should you decide not to upgrade gnome-terminal (which would be a really bad idea because these two components are so strongly related – bug 1261619), please at least backport the rewrap config option: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome- terminal/commit/?id=53f322af985fd244a1a9a7a67c79e5263d0fc090 (plus its translations). vte-0.36 added a new feature that it can rewrap the lines when the window width changes. In the mean time, gnome-terminal supports arbitrarily large and even infinite scrollbacks, and rewrapping a large amount of data requires a lot of time, which might significantly slow down the resize for those who have a large scrollback. We couldn't come up with a better idea than to delegate this decision to the user: they should decide if they're willing to pay the price of waiting for having both large scrollback and rewrap at the same time, or not. Pairing up vte-0.36 with gnome-terminal 3.6 (without the backporting of this feature) forces the slowdown for everyone who chooses to have a large scrollback and then resizes the window. This – without the possibility of disabling rewrapping – might be a terrible user experience. (But, even much better: ideally you should address this bug by updating gnome-terminal to 3.12.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 15 16:25:01 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (714 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-25 (50 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319864 Title: Backport rewrap UI setting Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Currently Utopic has vte-0.36 (from Gnome 3.12) and gnome-terminal-3.6 (from Gnome 3.6). Should you decide not to upgrade gnome-terminal (which would be a really bad idea because these two components are so strongly related – bug 1261619), please at least backport the rewrap config option: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome- terminal/commit/?id=53f322af985fd244a1a9a7a67c79e5263d0fc090 (plus its translations). vte-0.36 added a new feature that it can rewrap the lines when the window width changes. In the mean time, gnome-terminal supports arbitrarily large and even infinite scrollbacks, and rewrapping a large amount of data requires a lot of time, which might significantly slow down the resize for those who have a large scrollback. We couldn't come up with a better idea than to delegate this decision to the user: they should decide if they're willing to pay the price of waiting for having both large scrollback and rewrap at the same time, or not. Pairing up vte-0.36 with gnome-terminal 3.6 (without the backporting of this feature) forces the slowdown for everyone who chooses to have a large scrollback and then resizes the window. This – without the possibility of disabling rewrapping – might be a terrible user experience. (But, even much better: ideally you should address this bug by updating gnome-terminal to 3.12.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 15 16:25:01 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (714 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-25 (50 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1319864/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp