--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/18 10:39:20 1.540 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/02/06 06:17:29 1.641 @@ -1,46 +1,180 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title -TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files +TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. +TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn +TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. -TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. -TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts +TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango! TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. -TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. -WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin. -WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay... -WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. -WISH: support tex fonts - -9.0 -TODO: distributed clipboard example - - new script: perl/selection-pastebin - - improved security of setuid/setgid operation, which is now - encouraged, by moving privileged operations into a separate - process and permanently dropping privileges within the - terminal. This makes it possible to remove security checks from - the perl code and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to - run with special privileges. +TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?) +WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that? +WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better. +WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. +DUMB: support tex fonts + + - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix. + - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the + resource value. + - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument. + - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th + relevant tab window. + - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults + (initial patch by hednod). + - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and + selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime. + - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for + the benefit of automove-background. + - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset. + - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect. + - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted. + - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on + __linux__. + - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering + the colour components. + - plain scrollbar works better with -sr. + - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look. + - more colour rtt optimisations. + - properly(?) free colours on window close. + - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections. + - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets. + +7.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006 + - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width + detection: + - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated, + - overlap detection was improved. + - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft). + - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking, + causing unnecessary screen redraws. + - better handling of XFT combining characters. + - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they + might get used for other encodings which really need it, later. + - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally + weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft. + - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly + broken. + - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken. + - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to + reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation + of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft. + - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case + (patch by Paco-Paco). + - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support. + - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and + an "[alpha]" prefix. + - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100% + transparent. Long Live Xft! + - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use + Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly. + - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails + on a pseudocolor screen. + - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes. + - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken). + - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer. + - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number. + - small configure updates. + - further RTT optimisations. + +7.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006 + - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling, + - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre. + - small configure updates for libptytty. + - fixed version options: line output. + - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code. + +7.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006 + - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl + (could lead to global grabs never being cleared). + - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot). + - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2. + - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the + selection extension. + - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external + commands to fetch and store the selection data. + - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth + than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic). + - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences. + - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and + needs the careful rendering mode. + - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is + too wide and needs careful mode. + - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode. + - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous. + - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating + atoms only once per display. + - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command. + - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with + xterm. + +7.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006 + - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple + environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within + getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once, + ctrl-shift-672c). + - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused + non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection. + - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to + the primary screen. + - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output + could lead to an assertion failure. + - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal. + - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning + via mouse clicks. + - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection + with shift - mouse button 2. + - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates + in non-synthetic events. + - created a separate libpty for portable and secure + pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode. + - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so + continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the + whole urxvt[d] process. + - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet). + - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc. + - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure. + - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol. + +7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006 + - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been + improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process + and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This + makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code + and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with + special privileges. + - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid + itself. + - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get + the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap. + - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to + e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or + similar stuff. - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't - span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. - - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes - some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables - at the wrong time. + span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps + for programs displaying a status line at the bottom. - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct. - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant. - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started. - - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order. - - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom. + - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus, + as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm). + - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD. - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure (Emanuele Giaquinta). - - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support - anymore. - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description, to set the window title. + - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes + some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables + at the wrong time. + - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support + anymore. - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH. - nuked QNX support. + - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code. + - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order. + - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom. + - iom extended to support listening for child exits. 7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about @@ -772,9 +906,9 @@ - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific unicode character. - - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL + - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL get it wrong. - - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. + - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in