>> > 1. It seems that XFT is so good, so what's about the conventional fonts
>> > module inside X, like the xtt, freetype, type1, etc...
>> The X server can still provide fonts for applications not yet ported to
>> Xft. These modules will be useful as long as you have some older
>> applications left around.
> Do you mean that, these two module is stable enough, and no active
> development works is carried on these?
I am the maintainer of the freetype module, and I try to encourage
people to move over to using Xft for new applications, and port
existing applications to Xft whenever reasonable. Now that Xft
doesn't have particular server-side requirements, there is no reason
whatsoever to avoid using it.
The freetype module is being actively maintained, and there is a new
version that will hopefully get into XFree86 4.3.0. However, I shall
not add any new features to it; in particular, the ``freetype'' module
will never support TTCap. If you feel that you need the features of
TTCap, then I believe that you should be using Xft rather than the
core fonts system.
Regards,
Juliusz
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