vte for FC3/FC4 testing
Nicolas Mailhot
Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Tue Mar 8 20:34:45 UTC 2005
Le mardi 08 mars 2005 à 10:20 -1000, Warren Togami a écrit :
> Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> >
> >>[1] Run gnome-terminal, type ls, hit ENTER a few times. What should be
> >>the bash prompt turned into a black bar. You'll see lots of similar
> >>rendering trouble while building something too... like vte.
> >>
> >
> > As I said, I can't reproduce any of this here. Do you have pointers to
> > reports of these problems in bugzilla or anywhere else?
> >
>
> Sorry I should have been less accusatory in my language, especially
> since... this is actually Red Hat's fault. IIRC back in October Ray
> Strode merged that patch on the request of Owen. I complained loudly
> because of the bad behavior in those screenshots above. So Ray
> commented out the patch, but kept it in the SRPM for later review which
> never happened.
>
> Then on February 16 you asked him for details about the Fedora vte
> patches, and he included that disabled patch in his reply. He wrote,
> "fix-update-order - an owen patch to make sure the screen is fully
> redrawn before scrolling. I think owen said this patch had issues, but
> people wanted it anyway I think, so i applied it."
>
> I am puzzled why others are unable to reproduce that behavior. It
> happens so readily on my FC3 desktop.
I can confirm I've often had strange behaviour in gnome-term in the past
(usually all-black overlay in a new tab/terminal that's supposed to be
black-on-wheat when the system is loaded).
Can't say if it's still the case though.
regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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