Re: New Build

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:59, jacob berkman wrote:
> i'm happy to announce that we got a green build :)
> 
> i'm currently pushing a new build for red hat 7.2 and 7.3 which seem to
> have working menus[1].
> 
> new in this build is that gnome-terminal is using vte, the terminal
> widget for gnome 2.2.  it does nifty things like reflow of text when you
> resize the terminal, and can do aa text.  also the rendering bugs should
> be gone :)

FWIW, the snaps are using VTE ATM because

(1) if RH is going to use it, I want it to be as robust as possible so
as to minimize the impact on GNOME's bugzilla. More crashes caught now
mean fewer crashes when 8.0 is released, which is good for GNOME. [Red
Hat don't see all the stack traces, so they aren't quite as concerned
about it as I am.]

(2) it appears that the current effort to fix bug 78007 has stopped
momentarily, so we want to test vte's i18n and stability to see if the
community will do better with vte in the long term. Currently lots of
people in the community think we will but we can't know until people are
testing it. 

Most likely, if further attempts to fix 78007 or other zvt bugs are
made, we'll switch back to zvt in an attempt to test those. But I can't
honestly tell you if such attempts will be made or not, and if they
aren't, and vte is sufficiently stable and functional that the community
wants to switch to vte permanently, we'll probably stay there.

Luis

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