Nick Lamb <njl98r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:56:33PM +0100, egger@xxxxxxx wrote: > > We should really start discussing which dependencies would be > > acceptable to introduce. I'd really like to see gconf for configuration > > files and freetype2 for fontrendering to get rid of the X dependency > > and the all time sucker "standard font tool". And I'd like to evaluate > > ORBit as alternative to the wire protocoll as well as (optional) bonobo > > for embedding of GIMP into other applications. > > Is it possible to push font rendering (entirely) into a plug-in and give > that the freetype2 dependency? > > Or an extension, if it makes a difference ? Yeah, with GLib 2.0 we can just make it a GTypeModule tool. In any case, it should be a tool so we can edit the stuff directly in the GDisplay. As long as we stick with Gtk+ 1.2, I guess we should just depend on FreeType. Additionally, FreeType doesn't simply crash the X server when asked for a huge font ;) ciao, --Mitch
