Re: metacity, vte

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On 23 Sep 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes: 
> > I believe he plans to test this as soon as possible after he gets back,
> > but it's possible that he could turn up some issues that would need
> > sorting before making the switch, from an accessibility POV, since the
> > terminal is such a key part of making the desktop accessible to blind
> > users.  
> > 
> 
> I don't think fixing all bugs should be a prereq to making the switch.
> I still don't buy that a possible need to spend 2 days fixing
> accessibility glitches outweighs working Unicode, i18n, redrawing,
> font infrastructure, and terminal emulation. ;-) But as long as Marc
> can test it in the near future we could just spend the 2 days and
> avoid the issue. I'm fine with that.
> 
> I'm still wondering when someone is going to notice that you can't
> even change the font in the libzvt gnome-terminal... surely that's an
> accessibility issue too!
> 

Huh? This is just plain incorrect. AFAICT the font has always (as long as
always doesn't have to be longer than last many-many months) been
changable... Maybe there is something broken in your setup?

> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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