On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 21:42 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 25 juin 2005 à 15:09 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : > > On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 20:49 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > > It's kind of sad that the Gnome project chooses to piss off a great part > > > of its users every release for stuff no one really cares about (except > > > could we have some behaviour stability please) but all its grand plans > > > still do not seem to include a working font setup. > > > > Nicolas, this is *rawhide*. It's under development. There will be > > bugs. Flaming the developers does not help. Reporting useful, > > informative bugs in Bugzilla does. > > I know there are and will be bugs (after more than 7 years of rawhide > desktop I think I know what to expect). However at some point in time > rawhide was declared to be "dogfoodable". Font rendering is part of my > small must-work private perimeter. It's "dogfoodable" not "gourmet dinnerable". The fact that your fonts are somewhat the wrong size is a not a drop-everything situation. And if it was? Well, actually, it was what I was working on this morning (Saturday morning), and I had the DPI setting working again on my system before I saw your email. It should be in Rawhide within the next week ... next time we push new Cairo, Pango, and GTK+ snapshots. > It's pretty sad that after Keith provided us a top-notch font subsystem > app writers still to not take advantage of it properly. But somehow > managing this properly is always pretty low on the todo list. > > I'm starting to feel we'll be plagued by text rendering problems till > it's made a release priority like UTF-8 was. Seems not sexy enough for > people to fix it otherwise. I don't think this debate is worth continuing further :-) Regards, Owen
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