On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Ed Wilts wrote:
> I've got a dual-head G450, although I'm using only one display. Mine works
> fine.
>
The report on this list was just about one of the screens in Xinerama mode,
which makes sense since AFAIK the two screens do not provide the same
feature set and appearantly XRender is crippled on the second one.
Could also be fixed by one of the recent updates
> > Each of this is enough justification _not_ to enable it by default. Users
> > will complain.
>
> Also agreed. It has to work out of the box, which I'll admit it doesn't do
> yet. However, it can be made to work out of the box, which could be better
> than leaving it disabled.
>
OK, then let's elimitate the problems step by step.
Two of the problems (massive slowdown of Qt/KDE Apps and missing fonts in
Konsole) have been properly fixed in the 4.0.99 CVS version of XFree86,
but I don't see see a chance for 4.0.99 going in 8.0.
The speed issue is probably the biggest problem, it was solved with
rewriting libXft to cache the font lists.
BTW, I made a hackXFree86 RPM, does anybody else want to try that?
For the problem with ugly (somtimes unreadable) default fonts in KDE
as well as the missing fonts in Konsole, I still have the workaround
I posted here earlier, I guess I should have contacted the kdelibs
packager directly, because I did not get any reply to that.
The same goes for XFree86. We definately need a better XftConfig and
I already posted one.
We also need good TrueType or Type1 fonts that work at small sizes.
Most people use those from Microsoft (Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman,
...). Alternatives are those from the JDK (Lucida *), involving the same
license problem or the ones already included in OpenOffice (Lucida * Tur).
It may be only subjective, but the Type 1 fonts from URW (Nimbus *)
and from XFree86 (Lucidux *) don't look good enough to me.
Does anybody else have an opinion on this?
Arnd <><
