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I think the explanation lies here: > VTE is a terrible base for building a modern, fast and safe terminal emulator. It's slow, brittle and difficult to improve
by twic 6y ago
I think the explanation lies here:
> VTE is a terrible base for building a modern, fast and safe terminal emulator. It's slow, brittle and difficult to improve.
It sounds like the maintainers of termite had a miserable time dealing with VTE, and are glad to see the back of it.
- siver_john 6y agoI mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.
- rektide 6y agodev started with the hubris to try to do better. the laziness to find supposedly good libraries to work atop. and his impatience at a resistant, inflexible library resulted in them warding others off againat similar folly. a three virtues mini saga if I've heard of one, http://threevirtues.com/ http://threevirtues.com/
- codethief 6y agoGiven with how the conversation went in the Bugzilla ticket[0] that Daniel Micay linked, I can't say that I blame him. Make sure to scroll all the way down to comment #26 where the devs say: > This bug is closed and this patch rejected […] Adding keyboard selection to vte will be done inside vte, see bug 78291 [1] – a bug which is 19 (in words: nineteen) years old. [0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291