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Hello folks!!!

I’m rewriting xfce4-terminal.
You should already know that Benny’s Terminal is really ok with the common usage. It’s just a normal terminal, like gnome-terminal and konsole.

I really don’t want another terminal, with tabs and so on… So i’m working on a new restyling of xfce4-terminal based on a screen like concept.
I use screen everyday and i think it’s approach is ok for most advanced use… so why don’t keep the whole thing easy while focusing on functionality?

I’ve started to code some prototype and i’ll commit as soon as it will work :-)

We not very good at keeping this blog updated, are we? Previous post was Februari 5.

Anyway, I added some code to the panel to use a very nice trick by Frederico Mena Quintero to get a pretty graph of startup performance. Benedikt already did this for Thunar.

The first graph is here: http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/files/panel-startup.png.

Interestingly, I defer so much of the actual work until the panel is actually shown, that all most of the time is spent in the gtk_widget_show() call and handling of the signals that are involved in this.

I guess I need to add more mark points to conclude anything at all ;-)