Around 18 o'clock on May 31, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I'd be glad to get some feedback before submitting it. If people > object, I can always make a patch that makes the bitmap scaling > optional but doesn't actually remove any code. Mike Harris has built a similar patch and my comments to him were essentially that there are probably applications out there that depend on the existance of scalable names for all fonts, so I suspect we need to make the bitmap scaler optional; allow either :scaled or :unscaled options on the font path elements and make the default :unscaled. I'd like to have a build-time option to get rid of the code for kdrive servers, but the main XFree86 server should probably be built with the code in place, but disabled by default. An alternative that could work is to (optionally) advertise scalable names but do nearest-size matching instead of bitmap scaling; that keeps broken applications working while avoiding horrors on the screen, and eliminating the scaling code from the server. Perhaps ':nearest'? Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
