Re: Milestones document

[Chris Jones <chris black-sun co uk>]

Hi

> I'm also basically rewriting gnome-terminal ... its about 80%
> preferences code, and i'm adding a lot more configuration options, so
> I am using libglade for this (and hence the mostly-rewrite).  Bigger
> footprint?  Oh well, tough :)

Ugh. Does it really have to keep getting BIGGER? It's already a huge memory hog - quick'n'dirty comparison time:

SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
3292 3292  2592 S       0  0.0  2.6   0:00 gnome-terminal
1712 1712  1324 S       0  0.0  1.3   0:00 xterm

Sure it's not much of a difference, but if you have a big old bunch of terminals open at once (and I usually do), it gets kinda annoying to lose so much RAM to a gnome-terminal over an xterm for little extra functionality.

> On that note, writing prefs dialogues and config saving sux bigtime -
> so much bloat for so little functionality, but anyway.

That has always kinda annoyed me too ;)

Chris Jones