On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:19, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > Gnome-terminal like shipped in RedHat 8.0 is very, very, very slow. > The funny thing is that Mandrake 9 cames with exactly the same version > and it is about ten times faster (not an exaggeration).
I'd guess that Mandrakes uses the Zvt widget, while Red Hat's version uses the newer VTE (which supports i18n, accessibility, Xft2...) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-July/msg00426.html
