Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Re: Localization of Linux

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> Wow!  This is a scoop!  :)   [I'm only tuned into linux-console@vger]

Their is a linux-console mailing list at vger. Never knew that. I don't
think many people do. 

> When did this start to happen?

About a week ago. 
 
> What changes are planned?
> Ahh, that web page tells much of the story.  Way cool... "Eventually
> terminal emulations should be loadable modules."

We hope. I had a talk with Alan Cox about that. He doesn't care for the
idea of terminal emulation modules :(

> This would make things like GGI even easier to integrate, and "desirable
> features such as multi-head operation, scrollback, and support for different
> fonts, keymaps, and textmodes per VC" are all going a long way to
> really making text consoles much more versatile and useful.

Thats what we plan for the long run.

> I'd eventually like to be able to set/reset on a per-console basis
> whatever video modes I like, 

Okay. Fbcon allows that to a limited degree. 

> and even split the console to have
> multiple consoles on the same tty (something like splitvt does)

Thats not going to happen. Think hardware panning. Those two things don't
go together. 

> and
> way cool things like multi-lingual support on a global and/or
> per-console basis.

This would be really nice. Also another goal.

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