On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:22:29AM +0200, Hans Breuer <Hans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah I know. But still think it is a library to solve X design
> problems: Linking font files to list fonts selectable by feature.
> This sure is (almost) solved on win32 for years.
fontconfig certainly is a hack (design-wise, not code-wise), as it is
designed from a single-machine perspective.
Client-side fonts are, in general, the wrong approach (the idea of two
applications running that can't see the fonts of each other strikes me
as a bug, and the speed penalty is immense). Exceptions exist but are
exceptions.
The same design problem can be seen in xft, as xft is configured *per
user* and not per display. However, subpixel rendering etc. are
properties of the display ("is it a crt?"), and not a property of the
users eyes, as xft suggests ;)
However, this does not mean that fontconfig is a bad thing (it *does*
improve the situation a lot). It is, however, a workaround for
shortcomings in X, where it should actually be solved.
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