Subject: Re: OT: Why planet gnome doesn't tell all the truth?

[Alexander Toresson]

On 2/20/06, Michal Kapalka <michal.kapalka at epfl.ch> wrote:
> 3. Last but not least, there is a very interesting e-mail:
>
>         http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/30624
>
> In short, quoting few sentences "(...) real xterm supports a hell of a
> lot of fancy voodoo. It and rxvt-unicode are two of the most fully
> featured terminal emulators (from a terminal capability point of view)
> out there. None of these cheap knockoffs [it's mainly about Gnome
> Terminal] that claim to be xterm come anywhere near close to supporting
> full xterm capabilities."
>
> I'm not sure, how up-to-date this is, though.
>

This is very interesting. At least gnome-terminal and Terminal
pretends to be xterm on my system.,

A question to Benny -- Why does Terminal do that? Has it got something
to do with that it use libvte?

Regards, Alexander Toresson