[Konsole-devel] [konsole] [Bug 196998] Konsole should reflow the text when resizing

[Egmont Koblinger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196998

--- Comment #17 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail.com> ---
Speaking of gnome-terminal experience, it's a really time consuming and complex
task. You can see that bug yourself for the time span, amount of discussions
(e.g. see two separate design docs linked there), number of linked issues that
had to be resolved first, size and complexity of the final patch.  Tons of
tricky cases (CJK, combining chars, TAB characters; maybe even RTL for konsole
(not sure about this)), figuring out the desired scrolling offset, cursor
position etc. after rewrapping, maintaining the mouse selection etc., there's
no clear definition how it should behave, you just think really hard and try
until it all seems to make sense and users don't complain.  Performance issues:
how do you make it as fast as you can, even with giant scrollbacks; what to do
if it's very slow (e.g. infinite scrollback already containing millions of
lines), what kinds of optimizations or compromises can you make, e.g. can you
defer rewrapping, are you okay with the scrollbar position being only
approximate then? How do you manage it in memory or in the scrollback's file,
etc...

I hope konsole developers or an enthusiastic contributor will find time to
implement this. It's doable (and I'm happy to help with my g-t experience) but
it's definitely not a quick or easy task.

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