>XLFD fonts have not been meaningfully supported for a *long* time >in GTK+. I don't immediately what in your program no longer works, >but it's not something we are going to fix. > >If you really have a pressing need for 1986-era font technology, >use Xlib directly. i don't believe this is an error in GTK/GDK ... it works just fine using GTK1.2 on XFree86, but not GTK1.2 on X.org. i entirely agree with you about the agedness of XLFD, but GTK1.2/XFree86 systems don't allow us to use new font descriptions without requiring a lot of work on the part of the user, and there is no way i know of to describe a font that is unambiguous in both worlds. we are moving to GTK2 shortly, and will be using newer names then; in the meantime, i see no reason why the gtk rc file used on gtk1.2/xfree86 should break on gtk1.2/X.org. do you? perhaps by "we", you meant X.org, rather than the GTK project? --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
