--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/30 19:46:13 1.612 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/02/20 19:42:55 1.655 @@ -1,17 +1,77 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title +TODO: -pe tabbed users want -e and probably lots of other things. +TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve 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 documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. -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 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 + - 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. + - 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. + +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, @@ -30,11 +90,11 @@ - 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 known rgb values in the xlib case + - 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, #argb, #aarrggbb and - #aaaarrrrggggbbbb (yes, it did hurt) colour "names". + - 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