vte for FC3/FC4 testing

[Nicolas Mailhot]

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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