VTE is not making any attempt to maintain API stability. The following
changes to the API impacted Termite, despite it avoiding deprecated
functions:
* vte_pty_set_term removed (hopefully without an impact...)
* vte_terminal_get_child_exit_status replaced with new signal parameter
* beep signal -> bell signal
* vte_char_attributes -> VteCharAttributes
* sync suffix added to I/O functions along with some parameter changes
* rgba suffix removed from all color functions
* inner-border attribute replaced with GtkStyleContext padding
* vte_terminal_set_font_from_string removed, use Pango directly
* vte_terminal_is_word_char removed - is_word_char copied to Termite
* vte_terminal_set_word_chars removed - feature dropped
* vte_terminal_set_visible_bell removed - feature dropped
Support for text selection is still not supported upstream. The required
API is tiny and does not expose internal details. Despite the lack of a
compelling reason to leave it out like a backwards compatibility risk,
the patch has been left to rot on the bug tracker.
The vte_terminal_get_user_shell_with_fallback API was also removed,
although it was an internal API and Termite was only using it for
convenience. The functionality has been moved inside Termite.
Closes#187
I considered replacing this with `gtk_widget_set_opacity`, but it's no
more usable than window manager transparency since the font is transparent.
Since this is already broken with URL hints and won't be around in the
future, it might as well go sooner rather than later.
Closes#128Closes#39
This has been deprecated upstream, and there isn't going to be a way to
preserve the functionality. True transparency is also deprecated as a
feature of the VTE widget, but should be possible with GTK itself.
Mark Oteiza