Re: Parsing of fontconfig font names and other font related stuff.

[Yavor Doganov]

Jan Djärv wrote:
> It would also be nice to have Emacs use the same hinting and
> antialiasing as other applications.  We get a free GUI for setting
> these things (Gnome desktop preferences).

That's definitely a nice thing.

> If the infrastructure to set these values from desktop preferences
> are in place it is easy to change the actual means of getting the
> values, be it GConf, dconf or whatever.

Sounds convincing.  (Plus there would be a fairly long transition
period with GConf compatibility layer, so hopefully your work will not
be wasted.)

> Gnome is the GNU desktop after all.  It will fallback to not using
> GConf if it isn't present.

Right, that's good.  But if your plan involves linking against
libgconf, that's not of much use for distributors of binary packages,
who'll have to ship the GTK+ flavor with GConf support anyway and thus
will inflict the dependency on all users.