Hi, Hans Breuer <Hans@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > - GIMP's direct usage of fontconfig > IMO fontconfig is a X-only library which shouldn't be ported > to win32. Why should one want to inherit the mess which X fonts > are on a platform with better font support built-in ? fontconfig has nothing to do with X11. It is not dependant on any X11 libraries. > - GIMP's dependency on pangoft2 (1.2) > The dependency on Ft2 isn't such severe as the fontconfig one, > but pangoft2-1.2 does depend on fontconfig. > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-June/msg00008.html > > I'm still convinced that the native pangowin32 backend should be > the first class citizen on win32, but I appear to be the only one: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94791 > has the rotten bits :) IMO we should render text with the same backend on all platforms. Same holds true for selecting fonts. We use PangoFT2 and fontconfig since they provide a platform-independent architecture for this. > - Some brokeness of glib::g_spawn_async on win32 > Without patching it The Gimp can't talk to it's plug-ins anymore. > Although I have a patch it is probably too dirty to be included > in GLib ... Is it in Bugzilla? If not, please do file a bug-report for it asap. BTW, it would be nice to meet you and Tor at the GIMP developers conference. Would certainly be very important to have Win32 developers there. Sven
