> What I really ask is, what does art gives me? Let's revert the > question :) > I don't care for aa... and I know that it handles some image compositing > stuff better than xlib.
For me it's pictures and text that it does a lot better. The app I have been in the process of porting over a long time uses a lot of post-script based drawing into windows, including text, and this all works a lot nicer under art. I also find the fonts a lot easier than with X - if I need a font I just drop it into the fonts directory and there it is. Just like it was under NextStep. I can take any old ont off the web, wrap it as an nfont and use it. I still can work out how fonts under X11 are supposed to work so this is a big win for me. Especially as I need multi-lingual fonts and I still ahvent persuaded X to do that. but if you don;t have any need for ewither of those then Xlib has no significant disadvantages. But I cant think of anything which Xlib does better than art. -bat. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
