* What is VTE?
- You could say that VTE is something of a research project of mine, based on
  the simple question:  "if programs can use a termcap file (through either
  libtermcap or curses or ncurses) to determine how to drive a terminal, why
  can't a terminal emulator use a termcap file to determine how to behave?"

* What does VTE include?
- VTE includes a library (libvte) which implements such a terminal emulator
  widget for GTK+ 2.0, and a sample application (vte) which wraps that widget
  in a GTK window.

* How does it work?
- The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a trie, and then
  uses it to determine if data received from a pseudo-terminal is a control
  sequence or just random data.  The sample program "interpret" illustrates
  what the widget actually sees after it filters incoming data.

* What's missing?
- Entries in the termcap file also don't contain the sequences which a terminal
  is supposed to send to the application when a specific sequence is received
  (for example, the query-cursor-position control sequence).  This mostly looks
  like XTerm's DCS command, but ther may be others.
- Most commands specific to Xterm or dtterm are recognized, but very few of
  their behaviors are implemented.  Luckily, many of them are duplicates of
  standard termcap behaviors, and because we parse termcap first, they work
  correctly for "xterm".
- Portions of the alternate charset support (usually used for line-drawing)
  aren't done yet, but most of it is.
- Certain termcap-specific commands aren't implemented yet.  There are enough
  to run ls, vim, less, and probably emacs and mutt, but more need to be
  implemented.
- I'm not sure the widget implementation itself is correct.  There are many
  changes in going from GTK+ 1.2 to 2.0, and examples of the proper way to do
  things is currently scarce, so some of it's guesswork.
- An actual property interface needs to be retrofitted over the various options
  which are currently hard-coded at startup-time.
- Input method support isn't started yet.
- Mouse tracking isn't started yet.