Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:31, Sam Halliday wrote: > > i was just wondering if xft support will be enabled in future > > blackbox releases since Xfree86 now has libxft2 by default for all > > those pretty(free and not so free) ttf/type1 antialiased fonts. > > how hard would it be to implement such a thing? i mean, blackbox > > doesnt really output _much_ text anyway, just the toolbar, menu and > > window decorations i suppose... > a) xfree only, which means we have to deal with two different font > engines b) anti aliasing does not look great for everyone. The fonts > that RH ships seem to require AA to look good whereas my Debian > machine looks just fine without it.
i think redhats problem is that they arent using the freefont package, which debian does, they just kind of expect everyone to have internet access and download the M$ core fonts. i must admit, i used to have font issues with mandrake and redhat before i switched. > That said, we are likely to implement this. However it may not make > it into the next release. what really needs to be done to the code in order to implement this? is it a major thing, or have they made a good job of making transition to xft easy? if there are good examples/tutorials for using xft, i might be tempted to try and implement this in blackbox, just to see what it looks like. cheers, Sam -- Your society will be sought by people of taste and refinement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
