One of the more annoying properties of the Internet is that no matter what you post to your blog (or mailing list, or chat) people add comments like: “that isn’t new, the Amiga had it in 1987” or “that isn’t new, we did that with punch cards in 1953” or “Longhorn has that already” or […]
Jeff, the thing to remember about terminal performance is that you can trade off update rate with throughput to your heart’s content. That is, to make a really fast terminal, never update the screen until the child process stops outputting. To make a really slow terminal, update the screen every time the child process outputs […]
Two simpler approaches to the theme thing: Like OS X, just scrap the idea of themes and hardcode an application-specific design into each app. Limit the problem to layout. So have a layout widget that looks up the layout of an entire window from resource files, and allow themes to intercept the lookup to modify […]
What an exhausting week; XDevConf last weekend, LWE, then FUDCon. Really enjoyed FUDCon today, I thought it went really well. Big thanks to the organizers. We also had a very productive meeting yesterday with some of the major external contributors and some Red Hat people; decisions were reached and action items assigned on a variety […]