> -----Original Message----- > From: gtk-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx > [mailto:gtk-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Petr Tomasek > Sent: 25 October 2005 11:56 > To: gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: so,is this claim about pango still true? or does > nobody actually care? > > 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. :-( It depends on your purpose. If you're writing a small application with a fairly limited audience then rendering international text is irrelevant. For example I'm writing a small program at present only I and maybe a hundred others at the most will use. I will probably never even find someone who wants it to work in another language than english, let alone anyone to give me translations. If your writing a big app like a word processor then it's a useful thing to have. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
