On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:40 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote: > peter.backlund@xxxxxxx (Peter Backlund) writes: > > >> emacs-21.3-20 > >> ------------- > > ... > > Any news on the Gtk Emacs front? > > I would not spend much energy on such a port. A Gtk port means AA > fonts which are really a bad choice for text based applications. > Current (X)Emacs have a startup-time <1 second so that it can be used > as $EDITOR. With Gtk I fear, that this will be somewhere around 5-10 > seconds. > GTK port does *not* mean AA fonts. It means using the standard font system fontconfig, which *can be configured* to have AA fonts (and we do that by default). But if you open Preferences->Font or edit fonts.conf you can get whatever aliasing (or font) you like. Havoc
