Hi folks,

I had troubles with improper window embedding in firefox, so I decided
to upgrade my dusty private branch of ion to 20060305. Get it at
http://clemens.endorphin.org/weblog/archives/2006-03.shtml#e2006-03-12T12_02_42.txt

There are a few changes concerning XFT support. First, the seperate draw
engine code of xftde was merged back into the regular de. XFT is now a
compile type option to configure (enabled by default) and about 40
#ifdefs embedded in the de/ source files.

The consequence for you is that you do not have to rewrite your look
configuration to refer to xftde. So, it's "de.defstyle" again, instead
of the old "xftde.defstyle". This is pretty neat as XFT also understands
X11 font specifiers and so your old configuration will work right out of
the box, but now with proper XFT rendering beauty. To use XFT font
specifier, prepend "xft:". For instance, "xft: Sans-10:weight=bold".

A sample config using XFT font specifiers is at
http://clemens.endorphin.org/patches/look_cleanios-xft.lua 
It's using "Sans" as font, which maps -- on most systems -- to the
pleasing Vera font of Bitstream.

My branch also contains my key synthesizer patch, see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general/6473

There is also a semi-tested ebuild available for Gentoo, get it at
http://clemens.endorphin.org/patches/ion3-therp-ebuild.tar.bz2

Have fun,
-- 
Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org 
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