Scintilla doesn't put any effort into GTK on windows because it also provides a native windows version. But IIUC it would be a lot of work to change Geany to use that, and its only on windows, so there would be a big increase in support work as there would now be two versions of Geany.
On 10 June 2016 at 14:10, Matthew Brush <[email protected]> wrote: > @thdoan <https://github.com/thdoan> yes, for a separate rendering engine. > It would probably be less difficult to change Scintilla to mimic closer > GTK+'s normal font rendering (ex. matching hinting, aliasing, widths, etc). > For a comparison between Scintilla and GTK+'s normal font rendering, > assuming you're not using "native" win32 dialogs, open the Font Chooser > (View->Change Font) and compare the font shown in the "Preview" part of the > font chooser dialog to what you see in Geany. > > — > You are receiving this because you commented. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1066#issuecomment-225088853>, or mute > the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe/AAxgTe0BnYxQmXqCtfXKlJrM8rLq2JVyks5qKOOigaJpZM4IymIF> > . > --- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1066#issuecomment-225089402
