holly molly.. just stumbled upon this paragraph in [termite#readme] while searching for [dirs] this provided a many fold increase to my love for gtk too 🤣😘
[termite#readme]: https://github.com/thestinger/termite#readme [dirs]: https://alternativeto.net/browse/search/?q=dirs https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/18de7682e983e6562a87c63a2814c5e39461b081/README.rst?plain=1#L31-L34 > VTE is a terrible base for building a modern, fast and safe terminal > emulator. It's slow, brittle and difficult to improve. > VTE is treated as simply being the GNOME Terminal widget rather than a > library truly intended to be useful to others. > > They've gone out of the way to keep useful APIs private due to hostility > towards implementing any kind of user interface beyond what they provide. > > In 2012, we submitted a [tiny patch exposing the APIs needed for the keyboard > text selection, hints mode and other > features](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658). Despite support > from multiple other projects, the patch was rejected. It's now almost a > decade later and no progress has been made. There is no implementation of > these kinds of features in VTE and it's unlikely they'll be provided either > internally or as flexible APIs. > > This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other > projects using VTE as a library. GTK and most of the GNOME project are much > of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their > libraries are meant for others to use. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/675#issuecomment-2053720965 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <geany/geany/issues/675/2053720...@github.com>
