Mike A. Harris wrote:
It'd be an interesting test for someone to disable xfs, and to configure the X server to have only the "misc" font dir as a configured font path in xorg.conf, and then see what all apps no longer work.
I've been running my X server with xfs disabled for over one year, but I've added back core fonts in my xorg.conf. This seems to be a good compromise that would keep all legacy toolkits happy for a few more years. IIRC, delegating font rendering to xfs was just a workaround to avoid hanging X for too long while loading fonts with lots of glyphs (e.g. kanji fonts). Today, this is largely useless because: - Very few apps use the core fonts - most of them are not even localized or unable to use non-western fonts - Today's CPUs are much faster - Unless I've misunderstood something, X should now be able to load and render single character glyphs at a time. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
