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Re: the art backend and font
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JONATHAN ANDREW GAPEN |
Subject: |
Re: the art backend and font |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:59:47 -0600 |
From: discuss-gnustep-request@gnu.org
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:39 am
Subject: Discuss-gnustep digest, Vol 1 #1063 - 6 msgs
> Message: 2
> From: Derek Zhou <dzhou@chrontel.com>
> Reply-To: dzhou@chrontel.com
> Organization: chrontel
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: the art backend and font
> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:56:28 -0800
>
> My beef about gnustep was the way it handle fonts and text. The
> xlib backend
> cannot use all the fonts that I have, and try to use some fonts
> that I
> actually don't have, and no AA. etc. Now we have this promising
> art backend,
> but then I am required to hack up an nfont package for each of my
> fonts, and
> put them under the GNUstep directory? Why can't we just behave
> like everybody
> else (KDE2, GNOME2), and use whatever provided by X? Being 100%
> OPENSTEP
> compatible is pointless, I'd rather have something usable sooner.
Well, there's now the FontConfig (http://www.fontconfig.org/) package,
which lots of other user environments and applications are beginning to
support. I've looked at building support for it into the X backend, because
it'll interoperate with those other environments better, handle the font
caching, allow dynamic addition of fonts, and handle font substitutions for
filling in Unicode ranges.
I don't have time right now, but maybe in a few weeks...