On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:07:00AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > as for rendering vs typing...yes, you're probably right. but it still > > looks and "feels" like delays while typing because there's a noticable > > delay between typing a letter and having it appear on screen. > > I don't really think I can do anything. I'm not using GT myself
me either. i only tried it again this morning to see if it was an acceptable substitute for MGT. it isn't. > Let's see if I can find someone else to port it with me then. I don't > think I can handle it alone. I know I can start it and get it to compile > but I'll probably ignore it after that. it probably doesn't need much maintainence once it's working. as long as it compiles and runs, it'll probably only need the occasional recompile against newer libraries and maybe an occasional fix. can't see that it needs any new features. > > any idea where i can find the source for 1.6.2-13.1 ? > > From me ? ;-) > http://home.foolab.org/files/mgt/ > > Amaya did the last upload so the .dsc file has her signature. You can verify > it yourself. thanks. hopefully, i still have the gtk1.x and other required dev packages installed and can actually compile it. if not, i'll have to hunt them down too. > > maybe even fork GT to make New-MGT, and strip out as many of the > > annoying things that slow it down as possible. that would probably be a > > lot less work than porting MGT to GTK2 > > Actually, if it's porting Vs. writing my own code, I'd rather write my own. > GT is a bit over engineered "the drawing backend". the catch is that while you might end up with something better and lighter-weight than GT, it still might not be quite like MGT. i could cope with that, as long as it did things (e.g. tabs and title bars and fonts) at least as well as MGT does. MGT itself has some quirks/annoyances but i'm used to them and they are compensated for by functionality that just isn't in GT or other tabbed terms that i've looked at. and it defaults to white-on-black the way that the FSM intended, instead of black-on-white :) i'm not fixated on MGT, i just want the same functionality. MGT's been dead uptream for several years, and i suppose i ought to be glad that it's taken this long before it finally disappears from debian, but i'm going to miss if it there's no viable replacement. > Have you tried other alternative multi-tabbed terminals ? apart from GT and Konsole (worse than GT) and eterm (pretty frills rather than functionality), what else is there? craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
