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From: Dima K. <gn...@di...> - 2013-04-08 10:41:38
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Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> writes: > On Sunday, 07 April 2013, Dima Kogan wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I'm seeing an intermittent error that happens when plotting an image >> with the x11 terminal. I'm attaching two patches to fix this. I simply send a new command to indicate the end of an image block, and the plotter now doesn't try to process any commands in the middle of an image block. > Strange that no one has reported this problem before now. > On the other hand, I had a very hard time reproducing it with your > test case. I must have tried 50 times before I saw a single failure. > So maybe it's just very rare. Or maybe something on your machine > configuration makes it unusually prone to this error. I use a tiling window manager (notion), and I suspect this is the reason. In any case, this was undeniably a bug. > Or maybe hardly anyone is using x11 anymore. I know I strongly prefer > either wxt or qt to the x11 terminal. I'm not saying we shouldn't fix > this if possible, but the reality is that I view the x11 terminal as having > been superseded by newer, more capable terminal options. There > are many things that it just doesn't handle very well (font scaling, > non-ascii encodings, transparency, anti-aliasing, ...). My only reason for sticking with x11 is performance. Last year I tried wxt and qt, and they were both noticeably more sluggish. I just tried it again, and while qt was very slow, wxt seemed about as fast as x11. So maybe I'll jump ship too in a bit. dima |