On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:42:12PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:53:00PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > The right person to ask this would be Behdad, as he's the Fedora/Red > > Hat/upstream maintainer of most core components of our current text > > stack. IIRC his advice last time I asked the question was to avoid > > accessing fontconfig directly, but to pass through gtk2/pango, QT, or > > pango-cairo in cairo > > Is using Xft an acceptable way of using fontconfig or is it too low > level? Behdad's advice to me was to use Xft to replace raw X*Font calls in the example I gave: http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ocaml/trunk/otherlibs/graph/text.c?rev=6171&view=markup Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
