xfce4-terminal 0.0.2 is out

[Don Christensen]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Eduard Roccatello wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:06:18 -0400
>>"Derek T. Yarnell" <derek at cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What is wrong with xterm again?
>>>
>>
>>It lacks tabs, session support (in a future :-), xft support and so on.
>>I like xterm but i prefer something advanced
> 
> 
> plus, xterm is ugly ^_~.  if you're using a GUI, why use something that 
> isn't visually pleasing?  IMO, that's the _point_ of a GUI.  just my 
> aesthetic opinion, of course.
> 
> 	-brian

I feel just the opposite.  A terminal is for interacting with a command
line.  It doesn't need to be "pretty", it needs to be functional without
getting in the way.  I don't want menu bars and tool bars and what not.
I'm not even sure I would want tabs, although having them as an option
might be nice.  I want as little decoration as possible so that I can
get as much text on the screen as possible.

My main desires would for session support and light weight (defined as
minimal memory footprint and quick response), and I think the Xft thing
is worth looking into for nicer fonts.  I wouldn't mind better color
support for stuff like "ls", but that would be well down on my personal
wish list.

Just my two cents.

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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