Arun Sharma wrote:
> ...
> - One of the primary justifications for client side fonts is the
> slow pace of X server development
Slow deployment of new features is the issue not slow development.
The XFree86 folks are doing a great job. The problem is that the
cool new features take a long time to get on *all* (or at least
a high percentage) desktops as users do not regularly upgrade
their X servers unless they upgrade their OS.
> and the difficulty of supporting legacy X servers
Supporting legacy X servers is fairly easy for client side
font handling.
For server side font handling the deployment of new X server
extensions the issue is slow deployment of new X servers.
> Are these points a good basis to continue further discussion
> or do we have a significant number of people disagreeing with
> the above ?
Differences noted above.
> To add some context to this discussion - it started out of a
> review of IndiX - http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/ - an effort
> to support Indian languages using XFree86. IndiX takes a server
> side font rendering approach.
I'm glad to see people thinking about how to support Indian
languages. When would most desktops see this new IndiX extension?
I believe my goal is similar yours: move the X environment forward.
I spent a fair amount of time discussing the deployment issue with
Keith. The Xrender extension is very fast but for X servers without
this extension it does not matter.
Its good to see that Xft has addressed the deployment issue and
can now can work on all X servers.
Brian Stell
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