On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:23:47 +0200 Martin Kopta <mar...@kopta.eu> wrote:
Hey Martin! > so I got myself to write yet another article [3]. As promised, it is about > Surf > and little bit about tabbed. I have tried to incorporate your comments (thank > you!) and I will provide you with summary of feedback after few days. I can't wait to read it as soon as root.cz is back online! Stay tuned for feedback. :) > I left next article topic unset so if you have idea what to write next about, > please respond. > Otherwise, I am probably going to write (rather short) article about st. st and terminal-emulation sounds like a nice topic to write about. I haven't been involved with its development until a few weeks ago, but had the chance to get a lot of insight into its design. Basically, if you design a terminal-emulator, you have to deal with the graphical and emulative part simultaneously. In our case, Christoph Lohmann is the graphics- and Roberto E. Vargas Caballero the emulation-maintainer. They are the gurus to talk to and they know their business! As far as it goes, most old terminal-emulators suffer from unnecessary complexity (like most software does). As the st-index-webpage already showcases, xterm has never fully been stripped from its old cruft. The newer ones suffer from another nature of complexity, mostly due to the "modern" requirements for a "fully-functional" terminal-emulator. If you want to hear more details about it, let me know! Now, st isn't perfect. The most obvious complexity we have at the moment is the font-cache, which basically suffers from Xft's and fontconfig's designs. Being at ~3800LOC (with more and more refactorizations coming), there really is hope we can get below that. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
