On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 11:18:29 -0400 =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?= <jeremy.bi...@canonical.com> wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/issues/128 > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 9:09 AM Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > The ptyxis window seems to have a noticeable margin on the left and > > right, making fewer columns of text visible compared to gnome-terminal > > with the same font. > > The ptyxis maintainer is particularly concerned about performance. For > instance, screen reader support is currently disabled by default > because of its performance impact (although Debian and Fedora are > overriding that). > > See https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/commit/dce364aa36861 > where this has been acknowledged as an issue and a hidden preference > has been added to disable the extra padding. By hidden, I mean it's > only accessible via gsettings instead of the preferences dialog. I > have now set this bug's forwarded link to a related upstream issue > that has been closed.
Fair enough. A hidden preference seems sufficient for this. I hope that in the future it might be possible to achieve good performance without padding, but having a preference to prioritize zero padding even if there's a performance penalty seems like the right tradeoff here.
