Re: gnome-terminal awfully slow

[textshell neutronstar dyndns org]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:49:46PM +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> This isn't about performance, it's about accessibility.
> 
> The fact that vte was compiled into 2.2 was *not* highlighted in the
> runup to 2.2.  I think it's quite possible that our terminal
> accessibility has considerably regressed from 2.0, and that's not good.
> 
> :-(
> 
> Such things really, truly need to be explicitly called out if we are to
> have any chance of creating a usably accessible desktop.  I realize that
> this info is probably buried in d-d-list somewhere but us accessibility
> folks warned repeatedly against making vte the default gnome-terminal
> widget until verification could take place.  If RT/d-d-l was determined
> to make the swap regardless, then we really should have been given an
> explicit heads-up at that time.
> 

Short question (i don't want to make this thread much longer):

Bill, if Havoc had send an eMail with "Maintainer decision: switch zvt->vte" as
subject to the d-d-l, would have been enought for you?

In this way we all would see a non buried mail that just states the decision.
This could be something very good. But only if people respect such a
decision ;-) We can't expect the maintainers to repeat themselves over and over
again. 

Martin H.