--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/25 15:47:48 1.587 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/03/04 18:42:15 1.661 @@ -1,18 +1,128 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title +TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. -TODO: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl. +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: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?) +TODO: default selection should handle = better +TODO: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf +WISH: skipscroll option +WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one +WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that? WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better. -WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. DUMB: support tex fonts -TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn + - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h. + +7.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006 + - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware + combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense + of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author. + - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal + click, and eats the click. + - tabbed perl extension now supports -e. + - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any + refresh bugs please. + - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property + changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips, + improve size hint setting. + - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets + the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods + to correctly position their preedit window. + - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the + former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same + in empts spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection), + so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where + selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours. + - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate + focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed. + - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting. + - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on + colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco). + - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly + (reported by Paco-Paco). + - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be + working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt. + - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option. + +7.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006 + - 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. + - minor libptytty update. + +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). @@ -21,12 +131,15 @@ 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 usign 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.