On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:27 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > Callum Lerwick wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 19:53 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >> I can't guess how many users use nedit, but emacs > >> and mplayer have a massive userbase. > > > > And thus have plenty of motivation, and available manpower with which to > > port them over to using Xft. > > > > GVIM and Xine have been using GTK2/Xft for some time now. (Warning: > > Contains flamebait.) > > > > Fiddling around with compatibility layers, or trying to get the X server > > itself to handle fonts rather than xfs, is a waste of effort better put > > towards simply porting apps over to using Xft. > > > > Either we put our foot down, and completely rip out core fonts now, or > > we leave it as is and have this argument yet again during FC7 devel... > > We can not delete core font support. Full stop. > > Anyway it turns out this is a lot of noise over nothing, it's not > looking too difficult to fontconfigify libXfont, which will solve the > problem for xfs and all the X servers all at once. So I'm just going to > fix the real bug now, and you're all going to stop bikeshedding, k? > > - ajax Deal. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
