Brian Stell wrote: > > Documentation please. > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > > Over the past few months, a team of Sun engineers with experience in X > > internals, internationalization, and fonts have been working on a > > proposed new text architecture for X. We've all been watching the > > discussion of various font & text problems and proposed solutions on > > mailing lists such as the XFree86 lists, but have had to keep quiet > > pending management approval to discuss our project openly.
Brian, that it ungracious. However I do agree that this project means nothing until at least the documentation is released. Alan, while it is too early to comment on the details (and I probably don't have the skills) can I welcome this initiative from Sun. It has been clear for some time that text in X needed new work and while XFree86 might have enough talented individuals to produce a great solution, XFree86 is not the only X implementation out there, and the last thing X needs is divergent text technology - that would probably push unix completely off the market. Sun is in a position not only to deliver a good solution, but to use it in all their applications, setting a good example of what can be done with a good text technology. While I understand the commercial need to keep quiet, I trust that enough noises have been made in the right directions to ensure that skilled people like Keith Packard haven't been wasting their time. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
