[ This should probably be on a GTK+ list I suppose... ] On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 01:55, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> It's not on by default because lots of people don't have xft/RENDER/etc. > The GNOME 2.1.x development series includes new bits and pieces to change > these settings on the fly (as seen in RH8.0). According to an X guru I talked to on IRC, there is an X function "QueryExtension" for testing whether the server has a particular extension. Why can't GTK+ just use this, and enable the xft renderer if xft is available? And then you could say GDK_DISABLE_XFT=1 if you really didn't want to use xft for some reason.
