On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:55:21AM +0100, Chipzz wrote: > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > From: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: XFT and GNOME 2 > > > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:20:41PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > > I'd like for this to just work out of the box. Unfortunately the only > > > thing exceeding my desire to get things working is my lack of time to do > > > it; however I expect I'll find some time to go poking around if I'm > > > given some pointers to XFT resources. > > > > > > Is there any particular reason why the list of XFT fonts isn't a > > > superset of the non-XFT fonts in GNOME? > > > > These mails explain some of how it works: > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000585.html > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/002797.html > > > > You don't want all the old X fonts listed in fontconfig, because > > Err, fontconfig is for the new pango which isn't in debian yet ;)
But which has chances to be part of sarge. The new gnome is scheduled for release in january, is it not ? It should also solve all these font troubles, should it not ? BTW, with current gnome 2, is it possible to set AA to use the subpixel thingy of LCD monitors ? Most docs speak about either gnome 2.2 or Qt. Friendly, Sven Luther
