On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:54:18 -0400 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone here who uses Eterm on SuSE might want to know about this. If > you think their reasoning sucks as much as I do, e-mail them and let > them know. > > > ----- Forwarded message from Heiko Rommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > it is only fair to let you know that Eterm has been dropped from > future SUSE distributions, mainly because > > - I will be reassigned to different tasks and I was unable to find a > maintainer- Eterm still has no working support for UTF-8 > - we have too many terminal emulators in the SUSE distributions > (aterm, wterm, > mlterm, ...) and in comparision Eterm falls behind in terms of > developement progress > I use Eterm in Slackware which dropped enlightenment and Eterm long ago. I can see SUSE's point. More and more distros are supporting UTF-8 and need UTF-8 support in their terminal emulators. Distros are not just for western European languages anymore. People do want to type in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Eterm development does seem a bit stagnant. Is CVS still unchanged since the 0.9.2 release last year? That at least is the implication on www.eterm.org. ((I see browsing cvs that there have been a few changes, one on June 25th, one in May, a few in April, but it does seem like development is not really active)) Perhaps you need to express to them how Eterm is better than the xTerms they are keeping. Of course that may be hard without UTF-8 support. Brad ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
