On 8/2/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/1/07, Isaiah Beerbower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm now going to drop Mac OS X support for Font Manager. While I'm > > going to keep Font Manager compiling on Mac OS X, it isn't going to > > manage fonts for OS X. I'm going to start using fontconfig for > > disabling & adding fonts, and, while OS X has API's to get the same > > task done, I'd rather not have to create one more back end for Font > > Manager. I will however keep it possible to add such a thing in future > > I just want to mention that fontconfig is only used by cairo backend, > not art backend.
I'm going to use fontconfig to get information about fonts regardless of which back end is used. The art back end doesn't provide enough information by its self. > So regular GNUstep users will not notice the difference. > But I am all for cairo backend for the future. I haven't been able to get that running yet ... > If you have copyright assigned to FSF, > you can also improve cairo backend to > make it play nicer with extermal font manager. Yes. Is the cairo back end anywhere near being ready for use? The art back end is very primitive when it comes to font management, and I'd rather not have to bother with it ... (here sits a lazy programmer ...) > I think it would make your work easier, > for example, notifing all GNUstep application > when users disable font in FontManager.app. > > Another thing I really like is to have a fallback font mechanism. > (I think NSFontManager has a -preferredFonts: for that). > So if current font miss some glyphs, it will use the next font to > display that glyphs. > But it may be too much to ask. :) I *might* look in to that ... :) Isaiah Beerbower -- View my website at www.ipaqah.com. "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." -- Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
