--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/19 16:07:09 1.549 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/30 04:53:30 1.610 @@ -1,22 +1,108 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title 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: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl. -TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files -TODO: nuke rxvt_privaction and related garbage +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: 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. -TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings -TODO: distributed clipboard example -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 +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 + + - 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. + - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support. + - support rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa, #argb, #aarrggbb and + #aaaarrrrggggbbbb (yes, it did hurt) colour "names". + - 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. + - 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. -9.0 +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 @@ -788,9 +874,9 @@ - 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