[mgt-devel] NEWBIE QUESTIONS: which autoconf to use?

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:00:56PM +0100, Emilian Nowak wrote:
> On 19-02-2008, at 21:30:06 Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> 
> > How can AA fonts be disabled ? Any idea ?
>
> You can do this in libvte
> 
> There is a function like
> void vte_terminal_set_font_full(VteTerminal *terminal,
> 				const PangoFontDescription *font_desc,
> 				VteTerminalAntiAlias antialias);

ah, that's good.

so, if that results in reasonable speed, the only thing missing is a
function to check for new output in a terminal tab (to change the colour
of the tab title).

if vte is good enough then using it avoids the hassle of maintaining
zvt just for MGT2. it's probably also got better unicode support that
Mohammed probably needs if he wants to support arabic script (although
if that impacts speed, it should probably be a compile-time option and a
separate binary or even a separate package).

> > How can you really test something like "the widget speed" ?
>
> Create window put one terminal-widget on it and do something like Craig
> Sanders proposed: List all files from some big directory and measure time.

listing /usr/lib was just a quick way of generating a lot of output
without having to think about it or do any programming :-) i did say it
was a lame test.

better to do something like pre-generate a dozen or so random lines and
print them repeatedly in a loop. otherwise you're also testing the speed
of the disk & disk cache, and the getent & stat() lookups (for 'ls -l').

craig

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