On 05/28/07 20:59, Thomas Wehrspann wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 >> (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely >> drop all the pixel font stuff. >> >> Just to make sure there won't be somebody who absolutely needs >> the pixel fonts, please let me know if this is ok. Since probably >> most of you will be running VDR with UTF-8 anyway (once it is >> supported, which will be very soon), my guess would be that the >> pixel fonts are really obsolete. >> > The extrecmenu-plugin uses pixel fonts to display icons. > Some unused character numbers are assigend with those new "characters" to > display a symbol of a dvd, directory,.... > This looks very nice and is a great usability enhancement. This wouldn't work with Freetype fonts, anyway. > So i think something similar (integrating icons in the OSD) should be possible > also in future VDR versions. I agree. So I guess it's safe if I drop pixel fonts altogether. Anti-aliased freetype fonts really do look good ;-) Klaua _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
