Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] potential contrib

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Ray,


Ray Haleblian wrote:
> Great. I'm using GNUstep on Raspberry Pi, which works well and is fast 
> and small. I was after a more NEXTSTEP-like feel in Terminal and saw 
> that a black-on-white mode had been added. Visibility of coloured text 
> was not so good IMO.

Nice to know you find it of your use! I too am testing and running 
Terminal on the PI! GNUstep is of interest on these smalld evices, nice 
I am not the only one,.

I have planned a release of Terminal soon: I want to get out its 
translation improvemetns as well as Tabs stuff. However the Tab stuff is 
not 100% stable on all system, so I am slightly undecided on what to do.
Terminal code is not so "easy" to change!

> I made a change which describes the dark and light colours as 
> palettes, which allowed factoring out math ops that were recomputing 
> the same constants unnecessarily. Also fixed border pad so it is light 
> in the light mode.

This sounds interesting, especially the border pad could be ported 
before the release and defer some other major changes for the next release?

> I also added a monochrome mode, since with palettes it's low cost. I'm 
> doing something wrong in prefs such that the option is not immediate 
> in the session, only on restart. Likely some noob error.
>
> I see now that the global colour definitions in TerminalView.h are a 
> problem since a user pref change affects all terminals instead of just 
> the future ones.
>
> If i understand this code well enough, this stuff isn't a huge 
> performance hit, in fact i hope it's faster.
>
> Provided i fix that, if useful i could send a patch or however you 
> guys do things. Is the source in a public repo? I believe i'm working 
> from a tarball...

As you have found we have a "mirror" on github, which should be 
up-to-date to generate patches:
https://github.com/gnustep/gap/tree/master/system-apps/Terminal

The original repo is subversion and is found here:
http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/trunk/system-apps/Terminal/?root=gap


Riccardo