gnome-terminal is slow during vertical scrolling

[Victor Costan]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Reproduce by typing the following command in a blank shell

for i in {1..200}; do echo "Some random echo output for line $i"; done

The following methods for scrolling are significantly slower than in OSX's Terminal.app (I believe they're also slower than in previous versions of Ubuntu, but I don't have anything handy to test):
* mouse-wheel scrolling
* clicking near the top of the scroll bar when all the way at the bottom
* clicking near the bottom of the scroll bar when all the way at the top
* clicking on either the top or the bottom arrow of the scroll bar

This bug makes it really hard for me to do development work in Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-terminal 2.31.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 7 05:32:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100906)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's an old and known issue with vte, not a gnome-terminal problem.