On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:47:38AM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On 10/14/05, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > is this still true? does anybody care? is there a way to avoid pango > > entirely and still get AA fonts inside GTK2? will this ever be fixed > > before everyone is using h/w acceleration to print button labels? > > If you don't actually need any of the fancy features Pango provides, > bi-directional text, paragraphs and whatnot, you might just as well Rendering international text is not fancy, it's basic feature! > use Xft2 directly. It requires a bit more code, but with the Nokia 770 > VKB implementation we measured roughly 50% reduction in the time it > takes to redraw the whole layout (buttons with single-character > labels) It's sad, You're creating crapy applications, that cannot be used with arabic or hebrew, etc. :-( -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
