Re: What backend should be the default now on -nix?

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 27 oct. 04, à 11:31, MJ Ray a écrit :

> Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
> > Le 26 oct. 04, =E0 22:10, MJ Ray a =E9crit :
> > > I'd rather not go through the pain of trying to configure backart's 
> > > =20=
> > > fonts.
> > er.. there is *nothing* to configure !
> > you just need to install the fonts, that's all.
>
> That is not my experience. I managed to get it working on one system 
> here,
> but never the other. How to get it working seemed to depend on the 
> version
> of X, the version of freetype, the version of GNUstep-Back, which fonts
> were installed and the phase of the moon.

Frankly, the last time I had a problem was months ago (or even a year 
?) ... and it was
a problem with the freetype version, something that's now resolved.

> When it didn't work, it made
> the system so unusable with a corrupted display that I had to quit out
> to a text console. No useful errors in .xsession-errors most of the 
> time.

corrupted display ????

> back-xlib just installed and worked on both, which is why it should
> be the default.  Although it's not working very well between the two
> systems yet, that's still better than back-art.

bah, I could say the same thing here. Backart just installed and worked 
everywhere
I used it since a year. Even on MacOSX..

> My fault for not keeping good logs to debug this, but the core needs to
> be a very easy installation and back-art isn't.

If there is still some problems with backart, we need to correct them, 
that's all.
Backart is functionnaly better.

> > Please read the wiki page...
>
> Stop writing that, please. I have many times. I even read it out aloud
> backwards to see if there was some hidden message I missed.

Well, in your last mail you were saying something about difficulties to 
install the *fonts*.
Hence my remark about the wiki followed by the url.

--
Nicolas Roard
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 -Arthur C. Clarke